Judd Legum: With Medicare for All, your taxes go up, but calling it a ‘tax increase’ is a dishonest GOP talking point
Pete Buttigieg took a swipe at Elizabeth Warren’s appearance with Stephen Colbert, saying she was “extremely evasive” whenever the question of a middle-class tax hike would be necessary to support her health care plan. Would the middle-class see a tax increase or not?
Judd Legum says it isn’t tough: Yes, your taxes go up, but calling it a tax increase “is a dishonest Republican talking point.” OK?
This isn't tough.
Let's say you are paying $1000 a month for health insurance.
Then America shifts to Medicare for All and you are paying nothing but your taxes go up by $750.
Calling that a "tax increase" is a dishonest Republican talking point.
It's absurd. twitter.com/jaketapper/sta…
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1) Yes, it is literally a tax increase. Your tax payment rises
2) The "dishonest talking point" is that families will come out ahead on the "premiums/&out-of-pocket for taxes" swap. Not a single Medicare-For-All plan has included a tax mechanism, much less shown it to be cheaper twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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And please explain how 50 million Medicaid recipients -- who currently pay no health premiums, and thus would save nothing from eliminating premiums -- will come out ahead with higher taxes.
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Everytime a M4A advocate claims that we can just convert premiums to taxes with none worse off, note that *** NO** M4A legislative proposal actually includes any tax mechanism whatsoever. They cannot back up the rhetoric with any actual, workable, tax mechanism. Its all hot air,
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It is a tax increase, though. Like, literally, the policies described here would increase people's taxes.
Maybe you think that it's "dishonest" to argue that the policies described here would leave Americans worse off.
But it's indisputable that they would raise taxes. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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Almost as absurd as saying I’m paying nothing, then telling me my taxes go up in the next breath. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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This isn't tough.
Let's be honest and say you're paying $120 a month for health insurance -- from an insurer you like and want.
Then America shifts to Medicare for All and you're paying nothing, but taxes go up by $750 and you can't have the insurance you want.
That's... bad. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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Just like we're all saving $2500/year under Obamacare, Judd. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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you're assuming people pay more for health insurance than the amount their taxes would increase. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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Now, imagine the government runs something less efficiently and your taxes go up $1250.
Now we're on to the libertarian talking points. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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It's not tough, but it's also fiction that any health care legislation will reduce baseline health expenditures by 25% twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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This isn't tough.
Let's say I'm paying $0 a month for health insurance.
Then America shifts to Medicare for All and my taxes go up by $750.
Calling that not a "tax increase" is a dishonest Democrat talking point.
It's absurd.#FIFY twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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The mere fact that he thinks people have $1700 dollars a month for health insurance tells you everything. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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My family isn't paying $1100/ month for health insurance. Therefore, to me and the many other Americans who have good private insurance, this IS a tax increase.
You're expecting others to pay for those who can't afford things on their own. That IS theft, Judd. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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Economics 101:
The $1000 is a voluntary purchase of an insurance product where the $750 is a tax enforced by a federal agency armed with arrest powers and guns. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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I'm still waiting for the $2,800 per year in savings Obama promised me. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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It's literally Obamacare 2.0. Ask anyone who is enrolled in Obamacare and they will tell you their premiums went up an average of $2500.
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Judd Legum: With Medicare for All, your taxes go up, but calling it a ‘tax increase’ is a dishonest GOP talking point
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