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They also want to tax employee benefits.
They only want to tax employee benefits above $12,000. The point of it seems to be to limit how much health insurance people get, so it limits their access to healthcare.
If all employer-provided health insurance was taxed (not just the amount above $12,000) it would be a good thing in the long run, because it would disentangle health insurance from employment.
Not unless there's a viable alternative..... If put into effect today it would just be the equivalent to a giant cut for 15 million people.
No.. just the federal marketplace. Like it should be. Then move the shit to single payer and boom done. The federal government negotiates prices like all other civilized countries do
The federal marketplace is not an adequate replacement for all income levels, it's barely adequate for people who qualify for subsidies.
A large part of our current problem is that our fed government isn't negotiating prices like other countries.
As I said, we can only get rid of employer based benefits if there is an adequate replacement.
Wait, sorry, I'm an accountant in another country; you guys don't tax employee benefits? Lucky.
Based upon the down votes, I am adding an edit: Lucky because it can get nit picky for an accountant, not lucky because your government doesn't care for you. But I mis spoke and it was off topic, so I accept my comment wasn't appreciated.
We don't tax them because they are an end run around having universal healthcare paid through taxes. If it was taxed, we might just decide to go single payer through taxes instead and that would cut into insurance provider profits!
Yikes, thanks for the info. I think I misspoke, I just find the taxing to be nit picky as a process, and my sympathy that your country doesn't provide Healthcare.
You may have meant to write this under the cast iron post vs. The taxes under the Harris-Trump Boomer article.
I think a ublock origin filter is messing with my inbox.
In spite of what Republicans say, the overall tax burden in the US is lower than most other developed countries:
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxes-compare-internationally
Our taxes generally pay for fewer services, though, so we get to pay more for things like our absurd health care system, which ties the ability to afford health care to being employed.
Instead of taxes we have exploitative business practices...
Some of them we do, but the really ubiquitous standard stuff like health/vision/dental and retirement savings are deducted pre-tax.