Did I say that? Are you sure you want to be like that? You know damn good and well what I'm talking about.
Did you say that?
I don't know.
That's why I asked you.
You keep insisting that people who will benefit from ACA tax credits pay no income taxes.
And to some extent, if we're talking about effective tax rates, I agree with you.
On the bottom end there ARE people who, if they're not already net recipients of tax benefits currently WILL become such. These ACA credits will drop them to the point where they aren't paying an effective tax.
But there's a large number of people who will benefit from tax credits under the ACA program who do pay taxes and who will continue to pay taxes, just less of them.
And I don't want to lump them in with Mitt Romney's nearly mythical "47%".
That "47%" that pays no taxes, as we know, includes the indigent, those on welfare, children and retirees, veterans' pension recipients, and a lot more.
Essentially, a whole bunch of people who don't work, and who aren't even required to pay income tax, to begin with.
Those people are already benefiting from Medicare, Medicaid, or the VA healthcare system and aren't even candidates for healthcare on the ACA exchanges.
When we start talking ONLY about people who are working jobs, paying some income tax, and qualified for ACA health insurance plans that "47%" number drops precipitously.
I think there's a good chance that MOST people who benefit under the ACA tax credits are going to be people who currently are paying income taxes, both to the extent that they're having taxes deducted from their paycheck and to the extent that they're currently net payers of tax.
So I think you're right that there are some Americans who "don't pay taxes", but I don't know how many of them, if any of them, can be included here.
Do you?
Can you prove to me that some large percentage of Americans are non-tax payers who are going to get MORE back from the government as a result of this?
If so, please do.
You're the one whose always enamored with posting links.
Post some links that prove what you're saying.
Thanks.