06-23-2017, 06:03 PM
(06-23-2017, 05:31 PM)Dill Wrote: I don't think they are dumb at all Oncemore.
Think of the health care bill as an engine to cut taxes on the very wealthy.
Everyone is talking about "provisions" and "tax credits" and how "choices" are given back to the middle class and young people who don't want insurance. The Republican Senators are banking on the Trump base not really caring about the secrecy and rush to ratify. They could be right about that, but I don't think it will work because resistance is too great in purple districts. But it's not a stupid gamble.
Here's a thing about Obamacare most don't seem to understand. If you're in poverty you qualify for Medicaid. The people who need Obamacare are blue collar, working class Americans who aren't poor enough to get Medicaid, aren't making enough money to purchase health insurance on their own, or don't have a good enough job to offer health insurance. That can be verified at the Kaiser Foundation. So these people aren't paying much in taxes. Any tax credits they do get won't be enough to buy health insurance and it will probably work like the Earned Income Credit they will claim on their taxes at the end of the year. Plus the EIC is one of those dirty "entitlement" programs Republicans complain about. So it will be one more entitlement programs Republicans will want to cut in the future.
