the newly overtaxed (who mistakenly think they will be paying a mere $95 “penalty”) and now-uninsured - will be a lot more interested in the TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY Party. Obama has 3 more years to brand the TEA PARTY as dangerous radicals.
When health insurance becomes unaffordable to millions of former middle class Americans- and medical crises hit - just what is going to happen to “middle class” people who can’t pay out of pocket for medical care? The ER’s will be slammed with MEDICAID and illegal immigrants with free health cards, so really what will happen to the middle class?
“TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY”
TYRANIZED ENOUGH ALREADY. There, fixed it. :-)
“the newly overtaxed (who mistakenly think they will be paying a mere $95 “penalty”)”
Yeah, the penalty is much bigger than that, it is $95 or 1% of your income, whichever is greater for 2014, then it goes up after that each year.
The only good thing about it is there is no teeth in the enforcement section of the bill, so you just make sure you don’t have a refund coming on your taxes every year.
What will fedgov do without all those dollars coming in every week that they used to be able to sponge all year? Everyone will owe, or be very close to it from here on out - the people will actually wield some power now (if they aren’t too stupid to pay this little bit of attention).
“so really what will happen to the middle class?”
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Not much because it has very nearly ceased to exist already and the few remaining members will either find a way into the elite clique or become lower class, there is no middle class in a totalitarion society. There will be the ruling class and the peasantry, there will be an upper lower class and a lower lower class but no middle class at all.
Oh, don't worry. There is a plan already in existence to "take care" of them.
They will be called bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie, kulaks, wreckers, and hooligans - and we know how well that ended up for them the last time.