Discussion: Why Republicans Included A Tax They Hate In Their Health Care Bill

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Why Republicans Included A Tax They Hate In Their Health Care Bill Why Republicans Included A Tax They Hate In Their Health Care Bill Back to article
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The Medicaid cuts are likely to be more significant in the final tall but Republicans love those.

Edited to add a comment on this:

“We are fully repealing the Cadillac Tax until 2025 to comply with Senate budget rules,” the aide said in an email to TPM. “Throughout this process, we will work to repeal the Cadillac Tax permanently to ensure this punitive tax never goes into effect.”

So they’re saving the Cadillac Tax specifically to get a favorable ruling on the budget impact but then announcing that they’ll permanently kill the Cadillac Tax after that. Isn’t that, oh, I don’t know, fraud or something?

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A Senate rule known as the Byrd Rule requires that legislation passed through reconciliation not add to the deficit…

But wait, they’re always telling us Byrd was a former KKK member, so why are they using his rule to finesse their messy budget math?

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Factio Republicane delenda est

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No - it’s far worse than that I think - although it made no sense to me, I thought the story said that they were
killing it now but then will bring it back in 2025 (but not really because they think they finagle out of it).

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