Posted on 09/25/2013 9:27:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I didn’t know that. I thought tobacco smokers were the only ones being discriminated against.
DH says we should have divorced before our kids went to college — we would have received HUGE breaks on tuition on what we make individually and if one of us had legal custody. Salaries combined, we were hit full force.
We both have private insurance through our employers and have “been assured” (HA) that nothing will change. Neither my insurance nor his now covers the other, as it was before obamacare.
Maybe it IS time to draw up the divorce papers!!
It will only be ‘affordable’ to the 30 million new leeches that will get it free or close to free.
The cost of that will be paid by the middle class that already were covered.
“To the leeches according to their wants/votes, from the middle class according to their inability to hide their income.” - Karl Marx O’bastard.
We actually had an elderly couple come into our office who had been married for years and years file for divorce because they were better off divorced financially than married. She was devastated and he sat there patting her hand.
Go to one of the exchange sites and punch in some figures and medical conditions.
Unintended Consequences 'n all that! ROFL!!
In reality, the homo's expected to get all the "benefits" without having to pay the taxes? ROFL!! SUCKERS!!!!!
“I wonder if that is explicitly for tobacco?”
The Subsidy Calculator only mentions tobacco, not cannabis, DMT or crack.
My wife and I talk about this repeatedly: getting divorced but staying together after our sons are grown up and out of the house because we think we'll be better off financially. The reality after we examined it under our circumstances is that it makes no difference tax-wise while we're both alive, and hurts her financially once I'm dead. (Given my health, I expect her to far outlive me.)
Divorcing only works if both the husband and wife are still working and expect to work another 10 years or so, and they combined make more than $65k. In this case, they avoid the following tax penalties:
- Obamacare tax penalty;
- Marriage tax penalty
the above penalties are of course off-set by the husband and wife having fewer tax deductions (one cannot claim the other as a dependent) and having higher income tax withholding from their paychecks. Again depending on their circumstances, each will likely get much of those taxes back at end of year AND qualify for healthcare "subsidies."
Assuming the husband has had higher wages during the course of his life, when he dies the wife will not have the option of taking his social security monthly payment over hers. By law and because they're divorced, she'll automatically be "stuck" with her social security benefit only.
There are also estate issues when the husband dies that should a trust not be setup with her the named beneficiary, the estate would automatically then go into probate with the State getting a chunk of the estates value via probate court costs. This would also put the wife in a bad position in keeping the family home, etc..
In my and my wife's case, I'm the sole breadwinner in the family. Were we to get divorced but "stay together" we'd actually get financially impacted harder than we already are, that is unless she agreed to go on Obamacare and forego alimony in the deal. The only way we "win" in this case is if I have my salary cut down to below $65k -- which financially speaking for me is financial suicide.
My and my wife's only way "out" of paying the Obamacare tax in this case is for me to flat out quit my job and live off my savings until retirement - which I can easily do. Our plan is to sell everything once the kids are done with high school, I'll quit my job and we'll move to a low-tax state where I'll either stay retired, or make just enough to cover our monthly expenses. The side benefit to our plan is that then my two sons would qualify for grants, financial assistance, etc.. to go to college -- which they would not be able to -- should I keep working. I make too much and all these rip-off colleges would charge me full-boat for both of 'em.
Screw that, I'm out to protect myself financially and screw the system in return for all the screwing it's given me my adult working life!
Benefits paid to you as a surviving divorced spouse who meets the age or disability requirement as a widow or widower won't affect the benefit rates for other survivors getting benefits on the worker's record.
http://www.ssa.gov/survivorplan/ifyou3.htm
Why the sarc? It’s perfectly reasonable for a politician to quietly design a tax that will affect a group clamoring for an issue only if that group gets their issue.
Once the group gets what it wants, it is now beholden to the politicians who championed their cause. Those politicians want things in return. Sometimes the contstituents know what that thing is, sometimes they find out later.
I would assume that an actuarial or accountant would have informed the designers of the plan that the more married people the more tax revenue would be receive. If the base is enlarged, the system will be “better” funded.
In a country where I don’t have the freedom to buy light bulbs of my choosing, I am free to divorce my wife. We will then get a lower health tax premium, she can also go on welfare and the government will “take care” of her for the rest of her days. I can then (in RI) marry a 16 year old boy to “take care” of me for the rest of my days. And since I don’t really want a boy around we can then have him surgically changed into a female on the public dole. Is this a great country? or what?
That’s right, for a politician it’s almost always about the money.
And you can sue any business that doesn’t want to cater your wedding to the 16yo boy.
Has anyone on the floor made these specific arguments, or in factual handouts to constituents?
hell, even heteros aren't "marrying" anymore....
so we get a lot of drug addicts who have horrible infections where they use their skin for needle sticks, often having to have expensive intravenous lines placed, and on expensive IV antibiotics for several weeks.....all being paid for by you and me....the hospital does not get paid....
and alcholics....repeat pancreatitis....
all I can say is if you can get off the tax grid, do it....either by retiring or working less.....anything to make your tax burden less....
also.....stay healthy....a lot of things you can take care of at home...flu...colds....sore joints...etc..
I did not know that. Doesn't change our circumstances from a taxable income perspective though as I've been the sole breadwinner all these years now ...
I remember putting some spreadsheets together when the numbers came out quite awhile ago, and was amazed that the “marginal obamacare and income tax rate” exceeded 100% in these income brackets. How ANYBODY can justify this is amazing.... It is not like a married couple each making 35-40,000 dollars per year are rich, but I guess that they are in obamaville....
Ask your nearest friendly senator...
The communist goals have always been to break up families. Families are competition; as long as families are intact and capable of providing for themselves there will be no outcry for government to be their provider.
That’s why the communist-sympathizing organizations are always big on pornography, atheism, sex outside of marriage, abortion, homosexuality, promiscuity, divorce, drugs and alcohol, gambling, etc. Where those things abound, families are hurt and it helps communists create an inverted triangle, where the needy/takers far outnumber the self-sufficient/givers and topple the whole model of families providing for their own, under the burden of families providing for everybody else who blew their chances at a functioning, self-sustaining family because of bad choices.
This isn’t to say that everybody who is in need is in need because of their own bad choices. My sister-in-law is in dire financial need after her husband’s abuse largely due to porn addiction. She didn’t ask for that. But those who push porn succeeded in creating another family which cannot support itself. Obamacare doubly hurts because she can’t find a job.
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