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Suspicious discontinuities (2020)

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Re: Suspicious discontinuities (2020)

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You can find my phone number online. My time zone is UTC+1. Call me and hear my very African accent

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Thanks for the xenophobia.

Racism rears it's head in many ways.

I'm public about my details. Not hiding behind pseudonyms as though they'd protect me from someone determined to find me.

I'm in Angola right now. But does it matter to a "they're all the same" person like you?

Re: Suspicious discontinuities (2020)

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post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can find my phone number online. My time zone is UTC+1. Call me and hear my very African accent

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Slurs will get you banned here. No more of this please.

You broke other site guidelines in this thread too, such as "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like." Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Suspicious discontinuities (2020)

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>One reason people were looking for ways to lose money was that, in the U.S., there's a hard income cutoff for a health insurance subsidy at $48,560 for individuals (higher for larger households; $100,400 for a family of four). ... That means if an individual buying ACA insurance was going to earn $55k, they'd be better off reducing their income by $6440 and getting under the $48,560 subsidy ceiling than they are ear…

> (Which, I know, being retired on crypto, I also feel ick about taking the subsidies to begin with, but that's a different issue.) One qualifies for subsidies regardless of how much wealth they have? Sounds like US welfare system is a joke.

Well, remember, any time you have cutoffs like that, you can introduce the kind of welfare traps and discontinuities that the article focuses on. But yes, Congress definitely wasn't even asking "wait, do we want the subsides for high NW, choose-your-income people?"

Re: Suspicious discontinuities (2020)

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>One reason people were looking for ways to lose money was that, in the U.S., there's a hard income cutoff for a health insurance subsidy at $48,560 for individuals (higher for larger households; $100,400 for a family of four). ... That means if an individual buying ACA insurance was going to earn $55k, they'd be better off reducing their income by $6440 and getting under the $48,560 subsidy ceiling than they are ear…

I had a friend in that situation one year. He reported some imaginary income that brought him up over that limit. Paid the tax on it, received the subsidy, and was able to continue with his existing ACA healthcare plan (and doctors, and etc).

Oh wow, good to know about other people who went that route. I was also considering getting a friend to pay me "consulting fees" for their business, and then I'd silently gift back the money ... but, as above, ick.
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