If you start a thread poor-mouthing about how you just can't swing ACA...

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137. How about people who complain about estate taxes and capital gains taxes?

Even millionaires will complain that they can't make ends meet because of all the taxes they have to pay and because all their money is going toward funding liberal programs. Am I a bad progressive now if I say I don't think estate taxes, for example, are really putting anyone in the poorhouse and that if someone claims this is the case that I'd like to see some details showing how that works?

ACA costs are not quite like estate taxes, and I don't doubt that some middle class people will feel the pinch from it (and I agree with Jimmy Carter that the middle class now looks like what the poor used to look like). But the ACA is designed to help the poorest Americans through subsidies. It's designed to make costs more equal by not punishing woman for having ovaries, by not excluding people with pre-existing conditions. Yeah, some people who were a little better off before are now going to be a little worse off (except for that little part about not having to worry now about a $100,000 hospital bill bankrupting them). I wish the top percenters were shouldering most of this burden instead of a lot of it being borne by an already-squeezed middle class. But if you come on here and say that ACA is going to ruin you, I want you to explain how this is the case. I want to see numbers. Because even the very well off are not above poor-mouthing. If you're attacking one of the most important pieces of Democratic legislation in a decade one month before an election by voluntarily submitting your own personal situation as an example of how bad it is, I don't think it's asking too much to see some specific numbers to back up that claim. But I guess that makes me a Republican somehow.