Under Obamacare, the Internal Revenue Service would become a familiar presence in your life

Yes, Obamacare, if enacted, will be expensive, annoying and frightening to those who conclude, sensibly in my opinion, that the nation is on "The Road to Serfdom."

Judged solely on its partisan political impact, however, for Republicans, Obamacare may be the gift that keeps on giving.

Even now, Americans recoil at the mere mention of the Internal Revenue Service. If they actually have to deal with the IRS, they may talk about the experience for years afterward.

Under Obamacare, the IRS is likely to become as familiar to ordinary Americans as the postal service.

On Saturday, Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee released a new report detailing how the Democrats’ health care bill expands the responsibilities of the IRS and strengthens its hand in dealing with taxpayers:

“If the Democrats’ health care bill becomes law, the IRS could have to hire more than 16,000 additional agents, auditors and other workers just to enforce all the new taxes and penalties,” said Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI). 'It is a dangerous expansion of the IRS’s power and reach into the lives of virtually every American.'

IRS agents would verify whether you have 'acceptable' health care coverage;

The IRS would have the authority to fine you up to $2,250 or 2 percent of your income (whichever is greater) for failure to prove that you have purchased 'minimum essential coverage;'

The IRS could confiscate your tax refund;

IRS audits are likely to increase;

The IRS will need up to $10 billion to administer the new health care program this decade;

The IRS may need to hire as many as 16,500 additional auditors, agents and other employees to investigate and collect billions in new taxes from Americans; and

Nearly half of all these new individual mandate taxes will be paid by Americans earning less than 300 percent of poverty ($66,150 for a family of four.)

The Republicans noted that despite all these new mandates, the Democrats prohibit the IRS from imposing these same taxes and penalties on illegal immigrants."