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Are you a brave Republican Congressional staffer?

Because if you are, you have a destiny.

Congress may be fined tens of millions of dollars a year under its own health-care law, in part because the bill dumps members of Congress and their staffs from their current health-care plans.

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Before Congress incurs any fines, a complex series of events would be required to happen under the law. Generally speaking, an lower-tier aide — one not making a six-figure salary like some 2,000 House employees — would have to apply for government subsidies. The way the law works is that employers incur a $2,000 or $3,000 fine for each employee, depending on the circumstances, if only one of their employees obtains the subsidies.

So one lowly staff assistant could think he’s just getting some health-care help, while actually triggering a $50 million annual fine for Congress.

Embrace your destiny.  Start the ball rolling.  Force the Obama administration to demonstrate – once again – that their slipshod and slapdash approach to legislation requires constant intervention to keep even themselves from the consequences of their actions. Here is your monkey-wrench.  There is some exposed machinery.

You know what you need to do.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

COMMENTS

  • http://biggator5.net/ BigGator5

    Yes! Karma baby!

    Has any Democrat responded to this yet?

  • blooch

    “Rep. Dan Lungren, California Republican, told The Daily Caller while laughing. ?Isn?t that contrary to the very premise of the bill?? Wow.. thousands of people die in the United States due to lack of healthcare and this IDIOT, Dan Lungren, is laughing.”

    That’s about as coherent as you’re likely to see from them, BigGator5.

  • david_r

    What you suggest sounds nice, might even be cathartic, but what good comes out of wasting 50 million in taxpayer dollars?

    You after all are encouraging staffers to waste tax payer dollars… my money, and your money.

    Seems like we should focus on fixing instead of breaking.

  • spim

    more than a waste, I think this exercise helps point out that, indeed, there are terrible, egregious problems with this legislation

  • rocketeer

    50 million is small potatoes compared to anything that can come out of fixing. And it wouldn’t wasted money, but money spent on the repeal campaign.

    “Fixing” means “we agree on the general idea”, let’s compromise in the middle. Breaking means “it was so easy to break this, the full thing will be impossible to keep together”.

    Or rather, we don’t want to become the punch line of this joke:
    “What you are we have already established. We’re just negotiating over the price”.

  • grandma

    yes! I hope there are underpaid staffers who will follow up.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    ‘You’ did. Or at least, your party did. It’s not our fault that you voted for a bunch of congenital screw-ups who can’t write legislation to save their careers.

    Now shoo.

  • Raven

    “Four-hundred years ago, on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes, called sabo, into the machines to stop them . . . hence the word: sabotage.”