'A public safety disaster': Obamacare could force THOUSANDS of volunteer fire departments to close

  • The Affordable Care Act forces companies with more than 50 workers to buy them all health insurance or pay hefty fines
  • The IRS says volunteer firefighters are 'employees,' even though the Department of Labor says they're 'volunteers'
  • Out of more than 1 million fire departments in the U.S., 87 per cent are staffed entirely or mostly by life-saving volunteers
  • Members of Congress are weighing in, but the Obama administration hasn't taken any action yet to carve out a fire-fighting exception

Volunteer fire departments all across the U.S. could find themselves out of money and unable to operate unless Congress or the Obama Administration exempts them from the Affordable Care Act.

'I thought the kinks were worked out of Obamacare at the first of the month, Central Florida volunteer firefighter Carl Fabrizi told Sunshine State News.

'Man, oh, man, this could potentially destroy some real good companies in Florida.'

The U.S. Department of Labor takes the term 'volunteer' literally, but the IRS says volunteer firefighters are technically employees if they're on the job more than 30 hours per week, making them subject to Obamacare's employee-mandate rules.

more @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520979/Obamacare-mandates-set-shutter-THOUSANDS-volunteer-departments.html?ICO=most_read_module

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Comment by sleat on December 10, 2013 at 2:14pm

Civil disobedience by VFDs across the country would probably make sense in this context. Use Hegelian "problem, reaction, solution" technique against this nutty move, perhaps?

The chess game would play out possibly like this:

VFD refuses to comply (problem)

IRS reacts by financially punishing VFDs and trying to shut them down by force (reaction)

Media, and protesters on hand, many youtubes, etc. (reaction 2)

Government is forced (by public opinion) to modify this silly rule. (solution)

Although, this may simply be an insider ploy to give privatized "for profit" firefighting agencies a boost by a corrupted element of the IRS, or whoever administers the definition of "employees" at IRS.

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