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Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Yes, Killing The ACA’s Investment Tax Now Would Make The Next GOP Tax Bill Easier. Here's Why

The chaos surrounding Senate efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act will prolong the debate over what Republicans will do about the nearly $1 trillion...
July 20, 2017Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The Senate Leadership’s Health Plan Would Benefit High-Income Households, Hurt Those With Low Incomes

The changes in taxes and health care benefits in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s alternative to the Affordable Care Act would leave lower-income households worse...
July 11, 2017Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

If The GOP Must Cut Taxes As Part of Its Health Plan, Why Not Help Middle-Income Households?

If The GOP Must Cut Taxes As Part of Its Health Plan, Why Not Help Middle-Income Households? Let’s say you want to cut about $1...
June 29, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Sanders’s Domestic Program Would Help Most Households, But Add More Than $18 Trillion to the Debt

Sanders’s Domestic Program Would Help Most Households, But Add More Than $18 Trillion to the Debt. Most American families would receive new government benefits that would exceed their higher taxes under the domestic policy agenda of Democratic Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. But even though
May 9, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Bernie Sanders Is Proposing Really Big Tax Increases

It is hard to grasp the enormity of the tax increases Bernie Sanders is proposing , how far out-of-step he is with recent economic history in the U.S., and what a stunning contrast he presents with Republican presidential hopefuls. Where Sanders backs tax increases of more than $1 trillion a year
January 18, 2016Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Scott Walker’s Replacement for the ACA Would Leave Many Uninsured

GOP presidential hopeful Scott Walker’s plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is built on a controversial framework of tax subsidies that Walker estimates would cost about $1 trillion over 10 years. The plan is already drawing heat from fellow GOP candidate Bobby Jindal, who called it “a new
August 20, 2015Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Who Benefits Most From Repealing the ACA Cadillac Tax?

Republicans and some Democrats in Congress are pressing to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s Cadillac tax—a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health insurance plans. Backers of repeal argue that curbs on these generous plans would disproportionately hurt low- and middle-income
July 23, 2015Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox

How Did Medical Device Makers Become Poster Children for Obamacare Critics

The push to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s tax on medical devices has somehow become a touchstone for GOP efforts to chip away at President Obama’s health care law. But why? To paraphrase Bogart’s classic line from Casablanca: Of all the taxes in all laws in all the world, why did they pick this
November 13, 2014Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Will Enough People Enroll in Obamacare?

Earlier this week, I concluded that the Affordable Care Act’s tax on those who do not have health insurance will be both modest and difficult...
July 5, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Obamacare’s Uninsured Tax is a Mouse

The Affordable Care Act’s tax on those who choose not to buy health insurance was the linchpin of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the...
July 3, 2012Howard Gleckman