I like it. Although I dont think the federal govt should be involved in healthcare at all, this plan at least addresses it by cutting taxes. Basically, if you have health insurance, you get a tax deduction, 15k for families, 7500 for singles. This provides an incentive for people to get insurance. Of course, when congress gets done with it, who knows what monstrosity will come out of it.

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

Excellent post, however, I see this as more of the Government trying to get out of the way so people can live their lives, and incentives, when used properly are always going to be good. Especially this one. The Liberals will chop this into tiny bits, because they don't like incentive programs that promote people not depending on the Government.

I love your signature line. The fair tax, if initiated, would be the cure to all of our tax code failings, and unfortunately it will have a hard time making it. The Liberals would go nuts not being able to punish achievement with tax hikes on the rich. We definitely need more people on board with the fair tax movement. Just my 2 cents!

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Even if you believe we need socialized health care, this plan should at least be implemented to temporarily relieve a lot of the burden on families. And with this plan what do we have to loose? implementing national health coverage, however, can be disastrous if done the way Congress normally does things.

If this country insists on implementing national health care coverage, fine, but dammit at least ensure that it promotes efficiency and more importantly can be removed years down the line without serious issues. Social programs are often implemented on a whim to please voters, but don't actually solve any problems. Take some time to figure out something intelligent rather than something that will operate inefficiently and just increase the tax burden on the upper class without them seeing any sort of benefit.

Not a very fair plan for people who have full-coverage through their employer. They're gonna get a tax increase.

My first job out of grad school only paid $25K/year, but it had fully paid medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, etc. Under this plan, I would have been taxed heavily for having a great employer who paid what probably equaled something near to my actual salary.

I see this as yet another tax on a lot of middle-class people.

And, giving a tax-break to someone who can't afford insurance already doesn't seem like it'll help many people get insurance. For example, many people don't have health insurance because they can't afford the premium. Their salary is already so low that they don't pay many taxes as is. So, in essence, they'll see no tax incentive for getting health-care & will remain uninsured.

This is a not-very-well-thought-out plan. . .it seems like the prez is throwing a bone to the proletariat to make them shut up & eat cake.

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How is it a tax increase? Everyone with insurance gets a tax break, rich or poor. I dont see tax increases anywhere.

You are someone right in that this doesnt help the 40 million workers who already dont pay taxes. I suppose thats what the second part is for. Unfortunately, 5-10 percent of the country is chronically poor and/or stupid, and still will not get health insurance, even with large incentives. As long as you make the choice theirs, they will choose wrong.

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

Ok, Ive been reviewing it and figured out where the tax increase it. This wasnt in the original summary I saw. Basically employer provided health insurance will count as income now, so if your work is paying $5000 a year in insurance for you, you now have $5000 more taxable income. But the Presidents plan exempts you from 7500-15000 in income, so you have a net decrease. If you get more than 7500/15000 in insurance, you have a net increase.

BUT, this will encourage you to get private insurance, which means your work has to compete, lowering prices for all. Seems like a win for everybody.

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http://www.fairtax.org

Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.