The hidden reason Republicans are so eager to repeal Obamacare
Repealing Obamacare is a huge tax cut for the rich
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The two big relevant taxes, according to the TPC's Howard Gleckman, are "a 0.9 percent payroll surtax on earnings and a 3.8 percent taxon net investment income for individuals with incomes exceeding $200,000($250,000 for couples)." That payroll tax hike hits a reasonably broad swath of affluent individuals, but in a relatively minor way. The 3.8 percent tax on net investment income (money made from owning or selling stocks and other financial instruments rather than working), by contrast, is a pretty hefty tax, but one that falls overwhelmingly on the small number of people who have hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in investment income.
For the bottom 60 percent of the population that is, households earning less than about $67,000 a year repeal of the ACA would end up meaning an increase in taxes due to the loss of ACA tax credits.
But people in the top 1 percent of the income distribution those with incomes of over about $430,000 would see their taxes fall by an average of $25,000 a year.
And for the true elite in the top 0.1 percent people like designated White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and many major campaign donors the tax cut is truly enormous. Households with incomes of more than $1.9 million would get an extra $165,000 a year in take-home pay. That's obviously more than enough money to make these hyper-elite families come out ahead regardless of what happens to health insurance markets.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/obamacare-and-why-republicans-so-eager-to-repeal-it-commentary.html