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Re:Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive by briandear on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:16PM (#19655150)
“Anyone?” That isn’t accurate because you’re ignoring the doubling of the standard deduction. Higher income people who itemize would be the only ones affected. And with the reduced tax rates offset some of that lack of SALT deductibility. That SALT change only really affected less than 7% of taxpayers (10.9 million filers out of 153 million who filed returns.)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salt-tax-deduction-on-2018-tax-...

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Re:Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive by akhilcacharya on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:29PM (#19655228)
Just putting it out there, 11 million is significantly more than the number of people that lost their insurance in the “if you like your insurance you can keep it” outrage of 2013.

So 7% is quite a bit.

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Re:Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive by wsdfsayy on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:31PM (#19655242)
I'm talking specifically about high tax states like CA, NY, NJ. If you isolate taxpayers in those states the change affects a lot more than 7% of residents of those states.

This change was about Trump's desire to hurt residents of blue, high tax coastal states. To minimize this as something that only affects the .1% is rationalizing his terrible tax policy.

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