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Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of December 2017 eliminated the Affordable Care Act’s financial penalty for failing to maintain health insurance

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Jan 25, 2026
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How did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 affect federal deficits and income distribution in the years after passage?

reduced federal revenues, raised federal debt in the years after passage, and shifted after‑tax income upward—especially toward the highest earners—while delivering only relative to projections . Anal...

Feb 4, 2026

How did the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminate the ACA individual mandate?

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act () of December 2017 eliminated the Affordable Care Act’s financial penalty for failing to maintain health insurance by reducing the shared-responsibility payment to zero begi...

Jan 30, 2026

Every major federal tax escrow bill in American history was introduced by Republicans.

The claim that “Every major federal tax escrow bill in American history was introduced by ” cannot be verified with the provided reporting because those sources do not define “tax escrow bill,” nor do...

Jan 19, 2026

How did the 2017 tax cuts affect the US federal deficit?

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) reduced federal revenues substantially and—by official scores and independent analyses—meaningfully increased federal deficits and debt over both the first dec...

Jan 8, 2026

How did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 change federal taxes and who benefited?

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) substantially rewrote both corporate and individual federal tax rules by cutting the corporate rate, lowering many individual marginal rates, expanding some cr...