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"Saying the Marketplace Fairness Act is fair is like saying the Affordable Care Act makes health care affordable" -@MarshaBlackburn
May 14, 2013 12:30 PM
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"I can't believe #Obamacare led to higher health care costs," said no economist ever: http://t.co/J6dfnKqFYZ
May 14, 2013 12:01 PM
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#Obamacare's 10% tanning tax hits salon owners and customers, most of which are women: http://t.co/dJuaGAT9LE
May 14, 2013 11:01 AM
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Groups who advocated for the IRS to prepare tax returns sure look foolish these days: http://t.co/oKvpIofu7Y
May 13, 2013 06:30 PM
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"We don't need the federal government mandating additional taxes..." -@MarshaBlackburn on MFA: http://t.co/lAuLJtr5t3 #NoNetTax
May 13, 2013 06:00 PM
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Health insurers and businesses are already feeling the iron-clad grip of regulations in #Obamacare: http://t.co/J6dfnKqFYZ
May 13, 2013 05:30 PM
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell Signs Largest Tax Hike in Virginia History into Law http://t.co/Qd6KOFfaPv
May 13, 2013 03:46 PM
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Under #Obamacare, mothers have had a tougher time purchasing non-prescription, over-the-counter medicine: http://t.co/dJuaGAT9LE
May 13, 2013 02:01 PM
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9 out of 20 #Obamacare tax hikes have not even been implemented yet: http://t.co/opFkyf1guJ
May 13, 2013 01:30 PM
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.@GroverNorquist on MFA: "[The Senate] didn't ask all of the questions that needed to be asked": http://t.co/wXfkIR2Ca9 #NoNetTax
May 13, 2013 01:01 PM
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PrintTax Cuts Claimed by Obama White House Are Largely New Spending Programs
President Obama’s White House blog team reports that “President Obama’s aims (sic) to restore fairness to the tax system by providing the Making Work Pay tax cut to 95 percent of working families….”
Of course, there is a small problem here. 95% of working families don’t pay taxes. One-third don’t pay any income taxes at all. So how can we give them a tax cut?
Frankly, we can’t. But we can give them money.
That is what a ‘refundable tax credit’ is. It’s largely a “tax cut” on those who owe no taxes—in other words, just giving people money. This is literally robbing Peter (taxpayers) to pay Paul (those who don’t pay taxes). When you hear someone has a ' negative tax liability' that simply means that the government owes them a check.
Is paying the poor really all that bad, though? Yes. It provides an incentive for people to remain in poverty. It also costs money which we don’t have, and creates a voting bloc of people that are against tax reform, because they like paying no taxes and getting more benefits. Most worrisome, it is a step toward full income redistribution.
Cutting taxes on those who don’t pay them isn’t a tax cut. It violates ATR’s basic principles of lower spending, flatter taxes, and smaller government. It’s a political spending program that incentivizes people to spend time waiting in lines at government bureaucracies instead of getting job training. It’s redistribution.
