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Anti-Obamacare tweets about Canada are hilariously dumb

Oh Twitter, don't you ever change. Immediately after the Supreme Court voted to uphold President Obama's health care plan, the social media site exploded with posts from people who said they were "moving to Canada." You know, so they can escape a publicly funded health care system by traveling to a country that already has, um, a publicly funded health care system. (Although one armchair pundit gave "Drake is appreciated more" as a secondary reason, so we're kind of OK with letting her go.) Either way, the northbound lanes of these hypothetical highways sound like they're gonna be crowded. Leave early, friends.



http://now.msn.com/now/0628-moving-to-canada.aspx

I will close my business if Obama gets elected. And so will a lot of others.

Great decision. The good guys win again! Definitely helps Obama's reelection campaign.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Can the Internal Revenue Service police President Barack Obama’s health care mandate while simultaneously collecting all the taxes for running the federal government?

The question is being renewed in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding most of the 2010 Affordable Care Act as a tax issue rather than one of interstate commerce.

The law, however, severely limits the ability of the IRS to collect the penalties. There are no civil or criminal penalties for refusing to pay it and the IRS cannot seize bank accounts or dock wages to collect it. No interest accumulates for unpaid penalties.

So how can the IRS enforce the mandate? Scary letters and threats to withhold tax refunds.

The law allows the IRS to withhold tax refunds to collect the penalty, and most filers get refunds. This year, 77 percent of the 135 million individual income tax returns processed by the IRS qualified for a refund. The average refund: $2,707.