"TAXMAGEDDDON" - The IRS, Obamacare, and You: The Taxes.

"TAXMAGEDDDON" - The IRS, Obamacare, and You: The Taxes.HT: Heritage.

With the IRS under fire for its improper targeting of tea party groups, many Americans have also raised concerns about the agency’s activities relating to Obamacare. This week, we’ll be taking a look at just some of the many ways in which the IRS will be intimately involved with implementing the massive law.

It starts with taxes. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obamacare raises over $1 trillion in revenue in its first 10 years—and more after that. You name it, Obamacare taxes it. As Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint recently stated:

Obamacare taxes most people with health insurance, and most people without health insurance. Likewise, the law taxes many employers who provide health insurance, and most employers who don’t provide health insurance.

Obamacare contains no fewer than 18 tax increases. What’s more, 12 of these taxes will be borne by the middle class, directly breaking President Obama’s 2008 “firm pledge” to those making under $250,000 per year that he would not “raise any of your taxes.” For instance, many seniors will end up paying the 2.3 percent tax on medical devices as the price of wheelchairs, defibrillators, and other needed medical equipment will rise.


Here’s a list of all the Obamacare taxes to be administered by the IRS.Hmmmm......Enslavement Of the American people, CHANGED in to Serfdom.Read the full story here.

Russia’s top union representative urges Belarus to Abolish Timber Industry ‘Serfdom’.

Russia’s top union representative urges Belarus to Abolish Timber Industry ‘Serfdom’.(RN).Russia’s top union representative on Friday urged Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to allow timber industry workers to quit their job – a right they lost earlier this month.
The ban on resignation is similar to “slavery or serfdom,” Mikhail Shmakov, who heads the pro-Kremlin Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia, said in an open letter to Lukashenko.
The ban also violates the 1957 international convention abolishing forced labor to which Belarus is a signatory, the letter noted, also comparing the restriction to Myanmar’s internationally criticized labor laws, and urged him to cancel it.
Lukashenko’s office had not commented as of evening Friday.
The Belarusian president issued a decree in early December prohibiting timber industry workers from resigning without their superiors’ express permission.
The ban is set to last until the modernization program for the industry wraps up in 2013, Lukashenko said. This program already missed its initial deadline of 2012.
The ban affects some 13,000 people, Afn.by local news website reported last week.
Lukashenko also ordered timber enterprises to raise wages 100 percent to $400-500 a month, Belta.by news agency reported in late November.
“There’ll be even more talk about dictatorship, bear in mind, with them saying that we ban people from quitting,” Lukashenko warned at the time, apparently anticipating the Myanmar comparison.
The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia, established in 1990, claims to have 25 million members. It is part of the All-Russia People’s Front, created by President Vladimir Putin ahead of the presidential race of 2011.Hmmmm.....The 'Last Sovjet era Dictator'.Read the full story here.

Lukashenko Europe's Last Dictator Planning A Return To Serfdom?

Lukashenko Europe's Last Dictator Planning A Return To Serfdom?(Rferl). Despite a five-year modernization program, Belarus's wood-processing industry just can't hang onto its skilled workers.
Promises of higher wages and more attractive working conditions aren't doing the trick as workers continue to seek more lucrative employment in neighboring Russia.
So President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has come up with a different idea: forced labor.
"A decree is being prepared that says that until the end of the planned modernization and reconstruction of [wood-processing] enterprises [in 2015], workers are forbidden from quitting their jobs," Lukashenka announced during a visit to the Barysaudrev wood-processing plant in Barysau, a bleak industrial city about 40 kilometers northeast of Minsk, on November 30. "

Workers cannot quit their jobs without the agreement and permission of the management of the enterprise."
He added that workers who left their jobs despite the warning would be sentenced to compulsory labor and returned to the production line.
The presidential decree codifying the threat was issued on December 7.
​​ "The only novelty here from the legal standpoint is the concept of forced employment, which is completely illegal," Syarhey Antusevich, deputy chairman of the Belarus Congress of Democratic Labor Unions, said. "I think that maybe the leader of the country just went off on a tangent, as he is sometimes prone to do, and decided to solve some serious, real problems in this way."
Stephen Benedict, the director of human and trade union rights at the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in Brussels, said Lukashenka's proposal violates the conventions of the UN's International Labor Organization (ILO), of which Belarus is a member.
"We think this is a direct and absolute violation of the most fundamental principles and rights of workers," Benedict said. "There are ILO conventions that very clearly lay these rights out, and Mr. Lukashenka is completely denying these rights and ignoring the advice that he has repeatedly received [from international organizations]."
At the end of November, Lukashenka declared 2013 to be "The Year of Frugality" in Belarus. Among other goals, the initiative aims to enhance "economic security" through "raising labor productivity" and "the rational use of resources."
"The measures outlined by the Year of Frugality will be aimed at raising the frugality awareness of every person, encouraging frugal attitudes in and out of their workstations," the decree states.Read the full story here.