text: I acknowledge, of course, that the USA is a democracy; that Republicans have won a lot of elections; and that elections have consequences.
  Tax policy, economic regulations, and social policy are all coercive, and they all result in taking away money from some people to pay for services or activities that benefit other people, or ideally that benefit all of us. Progressive taxation is intended to place greater burdens on those who have more; Republican policy is onerous for those who have less.  It moves money, resources, and opportunities from the lower and middle classes to the wealthy.  The American Health Care Act is not really a health care act at all, it is an act to provide tax relief to very wealthy people.