During the Vice Presidential debate on Tuesday night, Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz endorsed the re-imposition of the Obamacare individual mandate tax, an onerous middle class tax increase that violates Harris’s pledge against any tax hike on any American making less than $400,000 per year.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by President Trump in 2017 zeroed out the much-loathed $695 – $2,085 individual mandate tax. Most Americans hit with the tax made less than $50,000 per year.
But on Tuesday Walz endorsed the individual mandate tax. JD Vance shot back: “You think the individual mandate is a good idea?”
According to official IRS data for tax year 2017, 74% of households liable for the individual mandate tax had an adjusted gross income of less than $50,000.
The individual mandate tax penalty was paid by 4,606,271 households.
3,430,003 of these households had an adjusted gross income of less than $50,000.
Using the same IRS data, let’s look at the state breakdown of the number of households hit by the tax before it was repealed by Trump and the GOP congress in 2017:
KEY STATES:
Pennsylvania 153,140 households
Wisconsin 80,240 households
Michigan 132,750 households
North Carolina 141,730 households
Arizona 107,360 households
Georgia 142,930 households
Nevada 52,130 households
ALL 50 STATES:
Alabama 41,960 households
Alaska 13,370 households
Arizona 107,360 households
Arkansas 41,130 households
California 553,000 households
Colorado 98,160 households
Connecticut 45,200 households
Delaware 11,230 households
District of Columbia 5,170 households
Florida 353,210 households
Georgia 142,930 households
Hawaii 10,890 households
Idaho 31,460 households
Illinois 162,920 households
Indiana 106,750 households
Iowa 38,430 households
Kansas 40,480 households
Kentucky 54,310 households
Louisiana 64,330 households
Maine 25,460 households
Maryland 64,180 households
Massachusetts 89,050 households
Michigan 132,750 households
Minnesota 69,460 households
Mississippi 32,260 households
Missouri 80,990 households
Montana 19,770 households
Nebraska 30,930 households
Nevada 52,130 households
New Hampshire 23,610 households
New Jersey 124,430 households
New Mexico 25,500 households
New York 260,660 households
North Carolina 141,730 households
North Dakota 11,970 households
Ohio 132,140 households
Oklahoma 54,720 households
Oregon 70,010 households
Pennsylvania 153,140 households
Rhode Island 14,840 households
South Carolina 64,440 households
South Dakota 11,190 households
Tennessee 83,440 households
Texas 559,420 households
Utah 49,470 households
Vermont 10,920 households
Virginia 107,130 households
Washington 110,400 households
West Virginia 22,820 households
Wisconsin 80,240 households
Wyoming 11,090 households
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Reprinted with permission from Americans for Tax Reform by John Kartch.
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Reimplementing the individual mandate in an already overpriced Obamacare for that many people should turn off all lower and middle income voters…and voters of comfortable means who also have a heart.
Democrats–especially Marxist democrats–want nothing more than to take money away from us citizens. That’s the money we earned from our labor and talent. This gives the elites, politicians, and lobbyists fantastic revenues that they can spend on really stupid stuff. When They have all the money, They have all the power. I, for one, am so very tired of it. That’s not the picture our founding fathers envisioned for a country founded on freedom and independence of the individual.
MAGA.
Taxpayer has a choice on Nov. 5 Will he wake up and smell the rat?
Excellent article. What else would you expect from a Communist.