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**Thigmaswams** · 01-21-2007, 04:09 PM

Well now X amount for health insurance and do not write it off on my taxes. This new plan is proposing I can write it off. Therefore I will be paying less when I write it off. Maybe I should have said insurance instead of healthcare.

You are already allowed to write off your health insurance costs if you itemize and my company deducts my share of my health insurance premium pre-tax. What I am getting from this idea is that it will allow people to write them off if they don't itemize, which helps them, yeah, but it will also institute a cap on the amount you can write off so some people would now pay now.

So what this is, is a plan to make the wealthier pay the way of the less wealthy.

01-21-2007, 04:09 PM	#19
Thigmaswams Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 481 Senior Member	Well now X amount for health insurance and do not write it off on my taxes. This new plan is proposing I can write it off. Therefore I will be paying less when I write it off. Maybe I should have said insurance instead of healthcare. You are already allowed to write off your health insurance costs if you itemize and my company deducts my share of my health insurance premium pre-tax. What I am getting from this idea is that it will allow people to write them off if they don't itemize, which helps them, yeah, but it will also institute a cap on the amount you can write off so some people would now pay now. So what this is, is a plan to make the wealthier pay the way of the less wealthy.
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