Campaign Action
Here’s a reminder of just what the Senate Republicans have plotted out in their tax cuts/Obamacare repeal bill.
The bill permanently eliminates the individual mandate that penalizes people for not having health insurance, raising $338 billion over 10 years by causing about 13 million fewer people, according to the Congressional Budget Office, to enroll in Medicaid or private insurance. The bill also adjusts tax bracket thresholds using a slower-growing inflation measure (known as chained CPI) than the one used currently. That amounts to an across-the-board tax increase for individuals, one that grows larger and larger over time.
And those changes enable the bill to pay for a permanent cut in the corporate tax rate, from 35 to 20 percent.
They are taking the money they get from kicking 13 million people off of health insurance to make a massive corporate tax cut permanent. Obviously, our response to that has to be to call Senate Republicans at 202-224-3121 and tell them “no.”
Our other response is to get as many people signed up for Obamacare as we can in the next month of open enrollment. That will send a message loud and clear to Republicans that we are fed up with their efforts to destroy the Affordable Care Act. It could help derail this terrible tax cuts bill.
You can help by joining the Open Enrollment Street Team volunteers helping Get America Covered. The more people who sign up, the harder it will be for Trump and the Republicans to take coverage away from millions.
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