"Our study bears this out. While the tax is designed to be paid by companies, employees or consumers will see significant increases in costs. These cost increases will be passed on in several ways. Large employers who are subject to the excise tax in 2018 will pay an average of more than $2,700 per employee a year from 2018 to 2024. As Mr. Gruber admits, and basic economics confirms, this cost will be passed on to consumers or to employees in higher prices and lower compensation."....
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Yet, in his bought and paid for "sales job," Gruber was eagerly lying about the ACA to combat voices of truth:
".....“Two days [after the Senate bill was unveiled], Gruber published a paper entitled ‘Impacts of the Senate High Cost Insurance Excise Tax on Wages: Updated,’ claiming that the excise tax would result in wage hikes of $234 billion from 2013 through 2019…. ..."
".....“On November 27, following the release of the CBO score, Gruber issued another report saying the Senate bill would reduce non-group premiums (Gruber is one of the CBO’s academic advisors)…. "....
Obama will be out of office and Hillary will be occupying the White House when this all hits the middle-class with big-time taxes and it will have been too late to do anything but join the masses fighting for more government handouts to try and survive.