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Old 01-19-2015, 10:37 AM
 
Location: San Antonio Texas
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Perhaps the tax credit to the lower income people will help them pay for birth control that certain employers refused to offer in their healthcare plans due to religious reasons.
They'd spend it on tattoos instead.
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Old 01-19-2015, 10:47 AM
 
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Perhaps the tax credit to the lower income people will help them pay for birth control that certain employers refused to offer in their healthcare plans due to religious reasons.
How many people do you believe fall in that category?


My health care plan has a deductible / co pay for high blood pressure medicine why shouldn't there be a co pay for birth control.
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Old 01-19-2015, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Deep Dirty South
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My understanding is that it is not a "tax increase" but a rollback of tax relief to pre-Bush levels.
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Old 01-19-2015, 11:25 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Bohica
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Old 01-19-2015, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Perhaps the tax credit to the lower income people will help them pay for birth control that certain employers refused to offer in their healthcare plans due to religious reasons.
The credit is against your tax liability. It reduces the amount you pay. Nothing else.
No money back in your pocket really.
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Old 01-19-2015, 02:55 PM
 
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Obama isn't proposing to tax only the rich. If he did, he would propose increasing the tax on truly rich people -- starting at, say, $50 Million a year. Instead he's proposing increasing it at $500K/year. $500K/year is far from rich.
By itself, no, but $500k over 30 years is most definately rich.
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Old 01-20-2015, 12:48 PM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Another liberal policy that like 110% of the rest of them is bound to fail.

So what else is new?
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Old 01-21-2015, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Paranoid State
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If you're pulling $500,000/year, you are somewhere in the 99th percentile.
Yes, at the bottom end of the top 1% -- But you are not rich.

You cannot afford one of these on $500K/year:




You cannot afford one of these on $500K/year:





You cannot afford one of these on $500K/year:



Or even one of these:



Or these:



You cannot afford one of these on $500K/year:



Or this:



Or this:





On $500K per year, you cannot afford to hire these:



or these:



Or even him:




Yes, $500K is affluent. But it is not rich.
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