House Republicans referred to those potential recipients with their six figures in earnings as “middle income.”<br />If the Obamacare replacement bill had come forward (and become law) without any income caps on the health insurance tax credits, there was a good chance<br />that employers would have stopped offering insurance to millions of employees.<br />Instead, it’s a question that is as much moral as it is fiscal: If health is our highest priority, then shouldn’t we commit to paying for it by reallocating the tax breaks accordingly, so<br />that more people get more of them when they are trying to afford insurance?<br />When a draft of the bill leaked late last month, it looked as though everyone who didn’t get health<br />insurance from an employer or government program would get a tax credit to help buy coverage.<br />Encouraging homeownership, meanwhile, is probably a higher priority than the fat tax breaks<br />that higher income people can take advantage of with 529 college savings plans (though there was a near-revolt two years ago when President Barack Obama tried to mess with that system.)
