Washington Examiner January 9, 2020
Yes, we pay a lot for healthcare. That doesn’t make healthcare spending a tax, let alone a poll tax.
Yet that’s the argument put forward by two world-renowned economists in the Washington Post. They’re not alone in their thinking: University of California, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the architect of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal, have both made the same nonsense claim that healthcare costs are a “poll tax” in the past.
“They are surprised Americans aren’t revolting against these taxes,” the Washington Post reports. What Americans should really revolt against are Nobel Prize-winning economists not knowing that an expense is, by definition, not a tax if it’s not the government collecting it.
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