July 29, 2013 12:16PM # Obamacare: House Hearing on the IRS’s Illegal Taxing, Borrowing & Spending By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) --- SHARE As Jonathan Adler and I detail in our *Health Matrix* article, “[Taxation Without Representation: The Illegal IRS Rule to Expand Tax Credits Under the PPACA](http://ssrn.com/abstract=2106789),” the Obama administration is attempting to rescue Obamacare from oblivion by literally taxing, borrowing, and spending more than $700 billion without congressional authorization. In a recent [letter to the editor](https://www.cato.org/blog/washington-post-adding-insult-obamacares-injury) of the *Washington Post,* I explain how these illegal taxes are already hurting workers. On July 25, chairmen of the House Ways & Means Committee, the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, and two Oversight subcommittees sent [a letter to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew](http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-07-25-DEI-Camp-Lankford-Boustany-to-Lew-re-illegal-Obamacare-tax-credits.pdf) demanding information related to the illegal tax-credit rule. The House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care has [announced](http://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-ways-and-means-seek-answers-on-irs-obamacare-rule/) it will hold a hearing this Wednesday, July 31, on the IRS’s illegal tax-credit rule titled, “[Oversight of IRS’s Legal Basis for Expanding ObamaCare’s Taxes and Subsidies](http://1.usa.gov/13eEbLp).” Adler will testify alongside Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Missouri physician and small business owners Charles Willey, each of whom has [filed](http://www.nationalreview.com/article/350047/obamacare-oklahoma-leads-editors) [suit](http://cei.org/halbig-v-sebelius) to block the IRS’s illegal rule. ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).