No, healthcare costs are not a ‘poll tax’

Yes, we pay a lot for healthcare. That doesn’t make healthcare spending a tax, let alone a poll tax.

Yet that’s the argument put forward by two world-renowned economists in the Washington Post. They’re not alone in their thinking: University of California, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the architect of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal, have both made the same nonsense claim that healthcare costs are a “poll tax” in the past.