How Many People Will Die For Each Rich American’s Trumpcare Tax Cut?

Ten. That’s how many people would die every year to give a tax break to each of the 400 richest people in America under the new Republican “health” bill. All in all, hundreds of thousands could die over the next ten years to make the wealthiest among us even wealthier. That number is based on the bill that passed yesterday, published estimates of the bill’s impact on public health and the economy, and some simple arithmetic. Blood Money In 1970, a writer named Richard Matheson wrote a short story about a married couple who receive a mysterious box with a button on it. They’re told that they’ll receive a large sum of money if one of them presses the button ― and somebody they don’t know will die. That’s pretty much the story of the so-called “health bill” the Republicans passed yesterday. It’s not really a health bill; it’s a wealth bill. It transfers even more of our national wealth to the already prosperous. In return, it will cause the death of people that Donald Trump and the well-heeled Republicans in Congress probably don’t know. What economist Gene Sperling wrote about its predecessor, which failed to pass in March, is true of this version as well. It’s “about rationing care to fund tax cuts for the U.S.’s highest earners.” Sperling summarized the tax implications of this bill in March: the bill’s two main tax cuts only apply to people making more than $200...
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