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The benefit cliff affects one demographic, and while affecting net revenues, isn't a tax issue. Software engineers fretting about moving into a higher tax bracket is another demographic, and is a tax issue.

These are different phenomena, generally affecting different people. While (a hypothetical I) could certainly lose out his social security medicaid by going from $0 income to non-0$ income, I'm not the person worried about going from the <80k$ bracket to the >80k$ bracket.

IME, the people who worry about making more money and moving into a new tax bracket are not people who are eligible for any meaningful subsidies to begin with.



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