What's important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying to your citizens, you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they’ll do it. But you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this.
Jonathan GruberExploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.
Jonathan GruberUltimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.
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