TAX BILL: GOP Plans to Repeal Obamacare Mandate
More bad ideas from a damaged Republic Party. They border on obsessive compulsive. They would throw 13 million people off of their health care insurance in order to lower the top marginal rate from 39.6 to 35 in order to please a small group of rich people.
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To help pay for the GOP tax bill, Republican Senate leaders announced Tuesday that they plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act's requirement that Americans maintain health coverage.
The announcement comes one day after President Donald Trump urged Senators to eliminate the Obamacare mandate and use the savings to reduce the top income tax rate to 35 percent, a move that would exclusively benefit individuals earning over $500,000 and couples earning over $1,000,000 under the current Senate bill.
"We're optimistic that inserting the individual mandate repeal (into the tax bill) would be helpful," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters after a caucus meeting.