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US government passed the affordable boat act

Posted: Nov 10, 2013

The U.S. government has just passed a new law called: "The affordable boat act" declaring that every citizen MUST purchase a new boat, by April 2014. These "affordable" boats will cost an average of $54,000-$155,000 each. This does not include taxes, trailers, towing fees, licensing and registration fees, fuel, docking and storage fees, maintenance or repair costs.

This law has been passed, because until now, typically only wealthy and financially responsible people have been able to purchase boats. This new law ensures that every American can now have a "affordable" boat of their own, because everyone is "entitled" to a new boat. If you purchase your boat before the end of the year, you will receive 4 "free" life jackets; not including monthly usage fees.

In order to make sure everyone purchases an affordable boat, the costs of owning a boat will increase on average of 250-400% per year. This way, wealthy people will pay more for something that other people don't want or can't afford to maintain. But to be fair, people who cant afford to maintain their boat will be regularly fined and children (under the age of 26) can use their parents boats to party on until they turn 27; then must purchase their own boat.

If you already have a boat, you can keep yours (just kidding; no you can't). If you don't want or don't need a boat, you are required to buy one anyhow. If you refuse to buy one or cant afford one, you will be regularly fined $800 until you purchase one or face imprisonment.

Failure to use the boat will also result in fines. People living in the desert; ghettos; inner cities or areas with no access to lakes are not exempt. Age, motion sickness, experience, knowledge nor lack of desire are acceptable excuses for not using your boat.

A government review board (that doesn't know the difference between the port, starboard or stern of a boat) will decide everything, including; when, where, how often and for what purposes you can use your boat along with how many people can ride your boat and determine if one is too old or healthy enough to be able to use their boat. They will also decide if your boat has out lived its usefulness or if you must purchase specific accessories,(like a $500 compass) or a newer and more expensive boat.

Those that can afford yachts will be required to do so...its only fair. The government will also decide the name for each boat. Failure to comply with these rules will result in fines and possible imprisonment.

Government officials are exempt from this new law. If they want a boat, they and their families can obtain boats free, at the expense of tax payers. Unions, bankers and mega companies with large political affiliations ($$$) are also exempt.

If the government can force you to buy health care, they can force you to buy a boat....or ANYTHING else...

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This was very funny, - Wonder what will be next

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that will be shoved down our throat.

We have health reform because a majority - VOTED FOR it. Nothing is FORCED on anyone. SM

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90% of the populace already has insurance through their employers and isn't FORCED to anything.

Those who don't and prefer to remain uninsured are totally FREE to continue that way and NOT pay the official fine/tax.

Those unpaid fine/taxes will NOT be collected by the IRS or any other agency. This is literally written into the law.

They will NOT show up as a lien when a refuser drops dead before running up bills they won't/can't pay (the ideal but unlikely situation).

They will not show up as a lien when a refuser does run up mountains of unpaid medical bills (unfortunately by far the most common situation) -- even to collect a tiny fraction of the taxpayer dollars spent providing care for those who prefer sponging off everyone else to purchasing the insurance newly available through Obamacare.

For my part, OP, I resent that last group the way you resent all those who voted for healthcare reform. There really was excuse once for some to sponge off their fellow citizens, but that excuse is GONE.

Oh, BTW, I dumped the pair of friends I used to go antiquing with. Neither work but always had more money to blow than I did, in part because they (in their 50s!) chose to go uninsured when they didn't have to. One was behaving very badly during a divorce and one day both started complaining yet again about Obamacare, yadayada, (this is the South, after all) and I just decided I had had enough of them. FT

VOTED for it, not FORCED - nana

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What we voted on and what we got are two different things. Remember Obama saying if we like our insurance we can keep our insurance? Remember that. Well now he gives a half-a/... appology because he was wrong. But we still have to participate. A lie is a lie no matter how you try to change it. AND HE LIED, DOWN RIGHT LIED.

How about we vote on what the plan is now. I don't think it will pass.

This is a horrible law and he knows it. If he doesn't he is dummer than a box of rocks and needs to be impeached.

The only ones that are going to benefit from this is the insurance companies and hospitals. Why is that not surprising though. It seems that no matter what the corporations come out big and we get the shaft.

Who can afford for insurance premiums to go up or who wants them to go up? I guess I am not that patriotic to pay more for the "better of our country." My first priority is to my family and making me pay more for something that I don't want to be a part of infuriates me.

So if anything happens and I lose my employer insurance, I guess I will just have to pay the penalty and be one of those who "sponge off their fellow citizens." Isn't that what Obama is doing?

This is the worst law in history as far as I am concerned, and that is what he is going to be remembered for. How he can stand in front of the American people and look straight in the camera into our eyes shows he has no conscious or morals.

Liberals are unhappy because reform isn't comprehensive - enough. You don't sound like an

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unhappy liberal. At all. :) So, I guess you are one of the many conservatives who supported the ACA Congress passed, reassured by its limitations, and are very unhappy because you got...what you supported but don't like now?

Seriously, you are giving up way too soon. Of course there are problems. There are ALWAYS problems, especially at first, but they never all go away. No one should expect perfection, or anything approaching it, in programs that affect 300,000,000+ people. That's 300,000,000+ individual realities after all. Just think of Social Security.

Anyway, I'm going to part-time with my current employer and with another new company (NOT IC because they don't pay enough). This is specifically in order to lose my lousy company insurance and thus qualify for Obamacare. I've examined my options and have learned that I will be able to purchase much better insurance that way.

In all likelihood, your own individual reality includes more than one option that will work for you. I'd wait until I actually lost my insurance to start despairing, though, and then I still wouldn't do it. :) Good luck.

That's an awesome - idea!!

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Going to part time so you can qualify for government handouts? Brilliant!! I think everyone should do that!!

Where do you see a 'handout'? Seriously - and that's not my moniker

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First of all the GOVERNMENT is not handing out these insurance plans - the market is. Are you suggesting the poster should STAY in her current position and pay MORE for a lesser policy?

Would you?

The poster is just smart - not breaking any rules, moral or otherwise. Oh, and the poster will also have to PAY for this 'handout.'

not so 'nice try.'

Won't be paying for - it...

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when the subsidy kicks in, which with only a part time job, should be quite substantial. There's the handout.

May be smart for the poster, but kinda tics off the rest of us who have to pay for that subsidy.

It's not a handout. Period. - you really are ticked off

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at having to 'pay' for a subsidy that helps your fellow American?

Do you know NO ONE who will benefit from said subsidy - who is close to you that you care about?

And do you realize how MUCH MORE you are 'paying' to treat thousands of unknown people who get 'treated' via the ER now - the MOST expensive type of treatment?

I would seriously give some thought to your moral 'outrage' and see how displaced those feelings actually might be - one the key provisions of ACA is that people actually NOW have a mechanism for paying for a significant portion of their own healthcare by being able to get care BEFORE they become sick.

"shaking head"

Insurance always operated by clients paying into - big pools and drawing out according to need.

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That's how one person gets to pay in $10K over 3 years and get $300,000 of healthcare when he comes down with cancer -- because many others also paying in stayed well. These are socialism-type pools operated for profit. I used to work in insurance.

Obamacare mostly just
1. Sets higher standards of coverage and care for the insurance companies and providers,
2. Requires insurance companies to pay 80% of all premium dollars toward actual healthcare, and
3. Promotes further free-market competition to control runaway prices.

What one of those is bad? No purchaser of health insurance would oppose them for herself. Should she oppose them for others?

you really are ticked off. - nana

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Have you been able to check out these plans. I have a friend who sells insurance and she said the premiums are more expensive and yearly deductibles for a family of 4 will be tripling. So if you now have a yearly deductible of 3,000 dollars, it will be 12,000 dollars. So most of us will be paying for insurance we will no be able to use because we cannot afford the yearly deductibles let along all the copays.

So the sick will just become sicker and still won't be able to pay for their care.

Ours was $126 less per month with the ACA. - Khaled

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I'm not saying everyone's will be cheaper, but ours definitely was. It took a little time to go through everything, but still less than an hour.

You mean paying for the illegals who do not - pay taxes, but I do.

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Just saying.

You're right. It's subsidized--by the subsidees. Hardly immoral. - By paying for healthcare this way, we CAN buy

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better healthcare and provide it to all of us, not just some.

IMO, because we CAN provide good healthcare to all Americans, and all foreign residents also, we have a moral duty to do just that.

And this is the means by which we will accomplish that, in the process becoming a better, more responsible people, a more physically and mentally healthy people, and a happier and more economically secure people.

This is not going to make everything wonderful for everyone, of course, but it will lessen, and here and there solve, a lot of problems. We're saying good riddance to much of the bad old ways and to much of the excuses, rationalizations, suffering, sacrifices, and premature deaths that went with not taking care of ourselves and each other as we could have.

I'm proud to have voted for this important advance all these years. I believe that most people who oppose it have done so because their leaders said to, because that's what people on their "side" did; that if their leaders had said they should want it, they would have. Good luck finding a vestige of morality or responsibility in that motivation.

FT

Liberals are unhappy - nana

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My point was what I voted on was not what we were given. Period. No two/ands or buts about it.

So let me understand this. You are quitting a full time job, so you can go to the pools to get your insurance? Sounds to me like you are looking for the subsidies. Now isn't that "sponging? of the taxpayers?

You say you have learned your options and you will be able to purchase much better insurance that way. Don't you mean much, much cheaper insurance that way.

I am not dispairing as you put it. I just don't like things forced down my throat that is not good for my family. Period. I have insurance that I am happy with. I probably could go to the pools and get cheaper insurance but why. We were told we could keep our insurance and will not see a rise in our premiums. Well I will see if that is true when we have open enrollment in February.

You mention Social Security. Look what the government has done to that program. It has become their "special go to fund" when they need to rob it. Same will come true for Obamacare. Government paying subsidies, means eventually higher taxes to cover those subsidies. Of course, he will not tell you that though.

So even though you sound intelligent, you are still looking for that handout. That is not what this program was supposed to be. If you quit your job you should not be able to go to the pools and get subsidized at all.

The insurance pool is paid for by the subsidees. - But--feel free to shoot yourself in the foot,

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as long as you are insured.

Once again selective information/facts - doesn't half the truth really come in handy!

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Just one of your points: social security. Has this program NOT done what it was intended to do? You make it sound as if the program was "robbed" the point of insolvency!

I do think by now Congress has gotten the message that Social Security must be a priority.

Really? It's a - priority?

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So what are they doing about it exactly?

How about affordable Chevie Malibu act? - Lotsa poor people can't

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afford one. How about the affordable lobster and caviar on toast act?

If I like the boat I have can I keep it?

Funny stuff.

Funny, true! But its comparing apples to oranges - typical - poor analogy

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I won't confuse the op with facts because it is clear he/she was just being humorous - and it was funny. Just has no bearing on the truth.

You know for a party that screams about personal responsibility, you would think they would be HAPPY that people are being require to pay for at least a PORTION of their healthcare... the poorest not being affected.

And for the family values crowd you would think they would be HAPPY that more lives will be saved because people will actually actually be able to seek TIMELY medical care, that again, THEY will be paying at least a portion FOR...

poor analogy - nana

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The way my insurance works, if we have an outpatient procedure we have a copay. My husband recently had to have some surgery as an outpatient and if we did not have the $750.00 copay, which we put on our Care Credit card, they would not perform the surgery. No payments period. To be paid at the time of service. So if we weren't able to do something what good did that insurance do for us. And if we are hospitalized that is a $500.00 copay, which he was hospitalized before deciding to do surgery 3 months later. So in 1 year we paid $1250.00 in copays and copays for all doctor visits, specialist visits, etc for a total of over $2,000. And we still pay our premiums of over $350.00 per month.

Now if Obamacare is going to make my insurance more expensive because we are older, or what ever excuse they use, I am not happy with it.

If you are happy with paying more for less, have at it, but I am not. So Obamacare is a bad idea.

And no I am not a republican, I actually voted for this DA (dumb a..) the first time around. But not the second time around. He did nothing for the country in the first 4 years and he is making the economy worse in his last 4 years.

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