In my morning piece I described, perhaps, the only sort of tax the GOP will happily support — ones that makes it harder for women to get legal abortions. I focused most specifically on a provision that would eradicate tax-incentives encouraging employers to provide health benefits if those benefits include abortion coverage. But it goes further than that. As Nick Baumann writes, the proposal would impact smaller parts of the health-care financing market by forbidding self-employed people from writing off abortions on their taxes, and making it illegal for people to pay for abortions out of tax-exempt health-savings accounts.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=114892