# Does the GOP Tax Law effectively repeal ObamaCare?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 26, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-gop-tax-law-effectively-repeal-obamacare/805340 "2017-12-26T21:09:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-gop-tax-law-effectively-repeal-obamacare/805340/41 "2017-12-29T14:49:30Z")

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I find this “cliff” so outrageous that I wanted to start a new thread. But I couldn’t decide whether the thread would belong in GQ, GD, IMHO, or BBQ Pit.

> [@jasg](#):
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> The subsidy is also quite perverse $1 over the income limit and you lose it all.

And I see that a month ago, a new poster also mentioned this:

> [@The Dems should put forward their own tax reform plan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dems-should-put-forward-their-own-tax-reform-plan/801507/86):
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> As crazy as it is such a cliff is not crazy to Democrats. They put a cliff just like that in Obamacare Subsidies. For 2018 a Family of 4 making $98,400 gets a $847 per month subsidy, get a $1 raise putting you at $98,401 and your subsidy is $0 . That $1 raise only cost you $10,164 per year. That’s real world Democrat passed into law crazy.

( **No Time For Fishing** made four other posts in toto, and disappeared. I guess he had no time … or finally got to go fishing.)

My question is: _ **HOW did such an extremely bad “cliff” become law?** _ Surely law-makers are acquainted with the concept of such cliffs and their adverse results. Was it stupidity by the D’s, malice by the R’s, greed by insurance industry, or a combination of the three? Or is there some ‘Gotcha’ we’re overlooking and it really is more sensical than it appears?

I even Googled ‘Contact my Congresscritters’ since it was their “idea” and, with great tedium, sent a message. (However I expect, at best, gibberish in response. :rolleyes: )

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