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AMERICANS will get their national health insurance plan whether they like it or not. That was the prevailing opinion in Washington on the eve of Thanksgiving.

Whether this prediction holds water after the turkey has vanished from their tables should become clearer over the weekend. Republican activists and stirred-up independent opponents of Big Government have promised scores of tea parties to scare the daylight out of their senators and congressmen and -women back in their districts for the holiday.

That’s American politics up close and personal. Every gimmick is in play, including pieces of American history like the Dec. 16, 1773, Boston Tea Party. Ostensibly an act of resistance against taxation without representation, the American colonials boarded three British ships tied up in Boston and dumped their cargo of tea.

The tea parties awaiting President Barack Obama’s health care reform are not in the same historical league. But if they are widespread and intimidating enough, their political impact could derail Mr. Obama’s signet project — as well as his chances for a second term in the White House.

Health care is the heart of the “Yes, we can” change he pledged to bring to Washington and if he flops, he will be politically crippled — or worse.

I don’t think I am overstating the significance of the health care struggle. A rickety economy is already hurting Mr. Obama more than he lets on. He spent trillions of dollars on Wall Street bailouts and trillions more on economic stimulus that refuses to translate into American jobs.

Repeated setbacks abroad, as in Beijing last week when Chinese leaders lectured him on the foolishness of overspending, must be cutting him down to size in the eyes of foreign governments and publics. And Iran thumbing its nose at Mr. Obama’s threats of sanctions, unless Tehran abandons its quest for nuclear weapons, is rubbing salt into his wounds.

Put public opinion polls telling him that more Americans reject national health care than support it against this grim backdrop, and the depth of Mr. Obama’s troubles becomes obvious to friend and foe alike.

But, as I said, he will pull it out because he must. An American president’s power to grant or to withhold political favours is enormous and there should be no doubt he will use it.

Canadians know the up and the downside of national health insurance. They don’t have to worry about medical bills, but must wait their turn for anything short of dire emergency.

Most Americans don’t have to wait. They are well insured and get top services without delay. The less fortunate and the 20-odd million uninsured live in fear of financial ruin and depend on emergency room care.

The national health care legislation now wending its way through Congress is supposed to end this scandal.

Who could argue with such a sensible solution? On the face of it, only heartless curmudgeons, blind politicians and those who profit from the misery of others fit the frame.

The biggest problem is the enormous cost — and that scares the voters. Can the United States afford national health insurance? Mr. Obama and most Democrats in Congress say “yes.” Americans “cannot afford not to have it,” says Mr. Obama as he assures the country that his plan would save money over time and reduce the national deficit.

Experience with Medicare — benefits that Americans who paid social security taxes for 10 years get at age 65 — says something else. When President Lyndon Johnson sent his Medicare legislation to Congress in 1965, projections for the next 25 years said the plan would cost $12 billion by 1990 — $9 billion for hospital payments and $3 billion for doctors’ services. The actual 1990 tab was $110 billion.

These figures can be found in government accounts.

For all the political noise and numbers buzzing in Washington, the nut question is: How much? And I don’t have to spell out the spin from both sides.

Mr. Obama will buy the votes he must have to salvage his eroding power and offer a chance of re-election. The bidding has already started — at $300 million for a vote — when Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana, withheld her support on make-or-break procedural votes until she got the money for her state.

Unless the tea parties fizzle and the Republicans turn out to be paper elephants, Americans will join Canada and the rest of the modern world where national health care is a given. It will cost them trillions of dollars more than Mr. Obama says it will, but who’s counting?rless processes and simplification is administrative savings and “green government.”

If you are feeling the stress of the upcoming April 15 income tax deadline, you have another option – you can file a tax extension and delay your income tax deadline to October 15.

The IRS is willing to grant you the six month income tax extension without you having to come up with an excuse to extend. In fact, the IRS doesn’t even ask why you need to extend. As long as you properly submit your extension request by providing accurate information, the IRS will grant you the six month extension automatically.

The fastest way to file an extension is to file it online through a website run by an approved IRS e-file provider like FileLater.com. FileLater.com makes the process easy. You’ll be asked for your contact information and then taken through a few simple questions to determine if you want to make a tax payment along with your extension. The whole process takes less than 10 minutes. A day later you’ll have an email back with the status of your extension. It’s that simple.

Another benefit to using FileLater.com is that they will help you ensure the information you submit is accurate, and they’ll help you submit multiple times (for no additional fee) if you for some reason get a rejection from the IRS.

FileLater.com will also provide you with an online calculator to help you determine if you should make a payment with your tax extension. If you decide to make a payment, you’ll be able to either mail a check directly to the IRS or pay via direct debit from your bank to the IRS as part of your tax extension e-file.

It is important to note that filing a tax extension does not grant you extra time to pay the IRS if you expect to owe the IRS additional tax dollars beyond any current W2 withholdings or estimated tax payments you’ve already made for the 2007 tax year. If you owe the IRS when you file your return and don’t pay when you file your extension, you may be subject to penalties and interest payments.

So, do yourself or your tax preparer a favor and file a tax extension. The deadline to file your income tax extension with the IRS is midnight on April 15. If you are for some reason rejected, you’ll have until April 20 to correct any errors and complete your extension.

Important Things to Know When Filing a Tax Extension Form 4868

Are you one of the millions of taxpayers who have not yet filed a tax return? Do you wish you had more time? The April 15th deadline is right around the corner but there is an easy way for you to get an extension of time for filing your tax return.

Filing a Tax Extension Form 4868 with the IRS will automatically give you until October 15th to file your tax return. For US citizens and alien residents abroad, you will need to file IRS Form 2350.

This is great for taxpayers who have complex tax situations or for those who are still waiting for all of their tax statements. The deadline to submit Automatic Extension Form 4868 is April 15th.

Please note, extension Form 4868 will not grant you more time to pay taxes owed. If you owe money on your tax return, the balance is still due on April 15th. The IRS will calculate penalties and interest on any outstanding balance if you do not pay in full by April 15th.  

In cases where a taxpayer does not file a past due return and does not contact the IRS, a substitute return will be prepared by the IRS based on information received from other sources. This may overstate your tax liability because this substitute return will not include any additional exemptions or expenses you may be entitled to. Bottom line: You will still need to pay any taxes owed by April 15th to avoid any penalties and interest.

Where can you go to file Form 4868? The easiest way would be to use an online tax software provider to prepare and submit the Form 4868 electronically.  There are some sites, such as www.esmarttax.com, that will allow you to e-file the Form 4868 for free.  There is a free version of the eSmartTax.com online tax software that you can use to estimate if you owe any taxes. You will also be given the option of paying any estimated taxes owed using direct debit from your bank account. The e-file method of submitting your Form 4868 and any necessary tax payment will avoid the risk of loss or theft in the mail.

Visit www.esmarttax.com or www.irs.gov to learn more about how you can easily file an Automatic Extension Form 4868.

Government agencies of all sorts, from FEMA to the FBI at the federal level, to state and local agencies are lambasted for ponderous bureaucracy and “red tape”.  Incompetence and inefficiency in government is felt so acutely because its consequences can be so horrible.  While certainly not incompetent, no other government agency seems to be as universally loathed as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and no tax policy seems to be as complicated, costly, and unnecessary as the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).

    Introduced to the American people by virtue of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, the AMT was designed to close loopholes that allowed some high-worth households to avoid paying income taxes altogether.  There are plenty of problems with the AMT.  In the words of the Brookings Institute, it is “notoriously and pointlessly complex”.  Not only is it a hardship for taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service has identified the AMT as one of the most difficult programs to administer.  It is, in the words of Leonard Burman, Director of the Tax Policy Center,  “the 800-pound gorilla in the room”.  Not only is the tax itself difficult and intractable, but so too is its resolution.  As we will see, there is little satisfaction with the tax as it is, yet, as we will also see, the most obvious solution, namely getting rid of it, is an equally offensive option.

    The AMT is also not indexed to inflation, meaning more households will be subjected to it, including upper-middle class households that were not part of the tax’s scope when it was created.  The Alternative Minimum Tax is unpopular, and deservedly so, and this unpopularity has led to calls for its repeal.  Organizations such as the Cato Institute and the Tax Foundation have been arguing for a repeal of the AMT.  A complete repeal of this cumbersome and difficult tax is certainly tempting, but it is not the best course of action for a nation that is literally hemorrhaging money. 

    First and foremost, a repeal of the AMT would result in a substantial loss of tax revenue.  The Center on Budgetary and Policy Priorities estimates that we would lose from $800 billion to $1.5 trillion in federal revenues over a 10 year period.  With the presence of other generous tax cuts, exorbitant military spending, and lavish “rescue” plans for financial institutions, the loss of this revenue could be catastrophic.  What’s more, a repeal of the AMT would be singularly regressive.

    The Brookings Institute estimates that more than 75% of the benefits of repeal would go to households with income above $100,000.  This nation is reluctant enough to provide government assistance to households with abysmally low incomes.  We should be equally cautious of an attitude of excessive indulgence for our most prosperous taxpayers.  It would be idiotic for us to relinquish our claim to the resources of our wealthiest in these increasingly dire economic times.  It would be despicable if we were to benefit our most fortunate while enjoining those in poverty to accept responsibility for “mistakes,” for which they are not entirely responsible.  It is clear that the AMT as it stands is unsatisfactory; a complete repeal of the tax would lead to equally unsatisfactory consequences.  The best option would be to reform the AMT to minimize its substantial flaws without foregoing at least some of the appreciable tax revenue it generates.

    The most important step in reforming the AMT is to spare middle class taxpayers.  High net worth households have the resources to withstand this bleak economic period.  The middle class will be hard-pressed enough without having to worry about the AMT.  Simply indexing the AMT for inflation would eliminate the “bracket creep” of inflation pushing households into higher tax brackets for the purposes of this tax.  The AMT can also be reformed to authorize personal credits and dependent exemption deductions.  The Brookings Institute estimates that these reforms would reduce the number of AMT taxpayers in 2010 by 88%.

    The AMT demonstrates how a solution to a problem yesterday can be the source of new problems today.  This is a lesson we must keep in mind when we address this unpopular tax.  Repeal will lead to critical revenue losses, which in turn may lead to draconian tax increases in the future, while reform can protect the middle class without completely sacrificing the valuable tax revenues we will need for an uncertain future.