I wish I knew why.
GOP leadership in Congress told him they would not move on tax cuts until this was done.
I wish I knew why.
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Me too. I can only imagine Trump is giving Ryan the old rope-a-dope here. A head fake. Playing 3-D chess while the RINO’s - who are out to get Trump - are being fooled.
And in the end - Ryan is forced out as loser; There is no replacement for ObamaCare; and the POS that is ObamaCare is repealed or imploded into a brown stained pile of impotent and meaningless garbage. Just like it’s author.
So is Trump playing the shell game here? The old bait-and switch? Ready to fool the Dems and RINO’s?
Jeez, lets hope so.
“I wish I knew why.”
He’s committed to R&R getting passed before anything. If it does not happen it will a huge loss. Ryan knows this so he shoved the POS through knowing Trump has to get behind it. We just have to hope it can be improved as it goes along. If it dies in the House it will hurt Trump bad at a time when he is on a crossroad between one of our greatest or being completely marginalized by MSM, Rats, GOPe and the courts.
Obamacare was so insidious it can’t be taken out in just one fell swoop. The unintended consequences could be disastrous. I think it is going to have to be dismantled a step at a time.
My take? and I am not 100% for it.....
* Lou Dobbs said it, it is a jobs program.
* Think about it, Lou is right, if you get rid of all the tax issues that this bills address, it is more money in the pocket of us, so it is a round about tax cut, and it starves Obama's Beast, that unto itself is worth the price of admission.
* Such as in the Bill; return of the 5K for your FSA's, and the cap for AGI medical expenses lowered again to 7.5%.
* The one I don't know about is the greater than 50 employees you need Obamacare, if that is negotiated in, that unto itself IS a jobs program How many small and medium businesses are waiting for that beast to be gone.
* Yes Green eye shade tax policy, it is enough to curl your hair.
However, it will begin the death of a thousand cuts of Obamacare as a legislative leviathan. As soon as it passes, Dr Price needs to address the 100 Administrator "Shall's" that Sebillus imparted on us, one of which I believe was "The Qualified Plan" aka that policy we now have that cancelled your old policy that is full of bells and whistles you don't want that is helping to cause your premiums to go through the moon. In terms of major changes w/out legislation That is the money and I can't wait for Dr Price to do so.
What I need to do is talk to my CPA gnome about the "Credit". The Credit is worth more than the pre-AGI Deduction ( IRS 1040 form basic tax training 101 ). So will small business give up the Deduction for the Credit?
More important is the $14,000 issue of a max credit. I want to know more, will it be like a HSA and you can build what you don't use for when you get old? That would be Yuge.
Also, our side is constantly talking about more HSA's.... No they are here, what I want to know is will Dr Price via his "Shall" give Direct Primary Care Payments parity will all purchasers such as the small businesses with the Credit, as only Large Employer Group Plans do so now. The Savings with the Direct Primary Care w/ and HSA is on the low end of 20 to 30% on the high end double that, or that is what I am hearing.
I am not worried, I have faith in President Trump to get this "process" right, in the next 2 or 3 years, just like he would building a building and overcoming obstacles. I don't mean to be schadenfreude-al but as this beast starts failing, the cries and moans from who built this beast will be like a bad 60's Godzilla flick when they were being attacked, and I will enjoy hearing them metaphorically scream...