transfer of hundreds of billions from dollars from moderate and low-income people who benefit from the premium subsidies that are part of the aca, a critical part. their taxes go up under this plan because they take those subsiies away while tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires are in the hundreds of thousands, so yeah. this is robin hood in reverse big time. but i think the key here, lawrence, is that the republicans are struggling with a very concrete problem. say what you want about obamacare. obamacare has set a health care baseline. it is now the benchmark against which all these other plans are going to be judged, and the president donald trump
but you probably agree with republicans on the explosion in the deficit this would be and the increasing debt. one thing that hasn t really been appreciated in cutting all of the taxes that support the affordable care act these are very progressive taxes. and you re talking about a transfer of hundreds of billions from dollars from moderate and low-income people who benefit from the premium subsidies that are part of the aca, a critical part. their taxes go up under this plan because they take those subsidies away while tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires are in the hundreds of thousands, so yeah. this is robin hood in reverse big time. but i think the key here, lawrence, is that the republicans are struggling with a very concrete problem. say what you want about obamacare. obamacare has set a health care baseline. it is now the benchmark against which all these other plans are going to be judged, and the president donald trump consistently said we re not just going to hit tha