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So, the article you linked is claiming the average penalty will be $4K? I'd like to see those numbers....
No it didn't. The article claims that $4 billion will be collected from the uninsured in 2016, and:
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A chart accompanying the report revealed that 200,000 of those paying the penalty earn less than 100 percent of the poverty line. An additional 800,000 are considered low-income, earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level.
The "average" you extrapolated ignored a few things in the article, namely that 4 million of the expected 30 million uninsured in 2016 will be paying tax penalties. You took the 1 million noted as at or below 199% of the poverty as the entire population, when that isn't the entire population listed.
The average penalty, assuming $4 billion in penalties and a 4 million person estimate of who will be paying it, is $1,000 per person fined, which makes a whole lot more sense and actually uses the facts listed in the article.
That should make a lot of the conservatives on this forum very happy. They are always complaining that the poor don't pay their fair share. That they should be held accountable for their choices. That the federal government gives them too much.
That should make a lot of the conservatives on this forum very happy. They are always complaining that the poor don't pay their fair share. That they should be held accountable for their choices. That the federal government gives them too much.
I don't think anyone should be happy about people that are forced to pay a fine with money they don't have. But the right to say "There is no free healthcare?" You bet!
So maybe these folks will realize they need to be responsible for their health insurance then? I can relate, healthcare is expensive.
Or maybe....just maybe....
We will join the 21st century and actually get universal healthcare instead of this "must continue to enrich insurance companies" scheme.
You can't afford another 8% taken from your paycheck, that's why.
And you can't afford yet another new consumer tax on top of that 8%, that's why.
Don't believe me then go look up Vermont's 2017 Universal Health Insurance plan.
19% new FICA..11% employer, 8% employee AND a new sales tax. And that is including the Fed money they get.
That should make a lot of the conservatives on this forum very happy. They are always complaining that the poor don't pay their fair share. That they should be held accountable for their choices. That the federal government gives them too much.
Actually it was conservatives that understood what would happen and how it would hurt the poor and the middle class so they fought against it. You and your liberal media laughed about it too.
But liberals and dems insisted, now they suffer the consequences. Hey maybe the liberal media who sold it to you will pay it for you.
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