# The Dems should put forward their own tax reform plan

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dems-should-put-forward-their-own-tax-reform-plan/801507 "2017-11-13T02:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![No\_Time\_For\_Fishing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f9ae1b/32.png) [@No\_Time\_For\_Fishing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Time_For_Fishing)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dems-should-put-forward-their-own-tax-reform-plan/801507/86 "2017-11-20T22:38:12Z")

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> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#):
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> That’s a hell of a cliff you’ve introduced there.
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> By my calculation, using 2017 tax brackets, a single person with taxable income of $124,999 would pay $16,052 (((124999_0.65)-37,950)_.25 + 5,226.25), and a person with taxable income of $125,000 would pay $27,981.
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> Congratulations, you got a small raise! Now you owe an extra $11,000 in taxes!
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> This is, frankly, a bafflingly weird and behavior-distorting way to make income taxes more progressive, especially since we already have the concept of _tax brackets_, which are progressive without weird discontinuities.

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.

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