Dude.
My argument, from the very first post discussing the Census data:
[D]ata compiled by the
Census Bureau indicates that the poor are not especially immobile
I repeated that argument multiple times.
StopMakingSense and
pigeon identified potential flaws in my argument in their very first posts on the subject. Meanwhile, you thrashed about trying to contradict it on whatever flimsy basis sprang to mind:
most people moved intrastate, the military and students were throwing everything off (a claim for which you have adduced no evidence), I forgot to ignore moves from those living on a border (because moving across state borders is different from interstate or something), let's not forget about Hurricane Katrina,
there are so many factors, fewer people with incomes below $50,000 moved interstate between 2005 and 2010 than those with incomes above $50,000, people have debt so there, people don't even want to move (
especially wealthy people--another claim not supported by evidence), somehow the minimum wage changes the entire analysis, people were going to die if they didn't flee New Orleans, poor people rarely move interstate (which proves me wrong because I claimed they
especially moved interstate), I can't interpret data,
poor people are especially immobile because everyone is immobile, the data don't show that the poor are no more immobile than others (it only shows that everyone is equally immobile!), I have to provide an explanation for why people earning less than $50,000 moved less than others during 2005 - 2010 or else, and
not very many people cross state lines anyhow. Yet, you now claim that, this whole time, you've (secretly, maybe?) been making the argument that StopMakingSense and pigeon made?
And this entire discussion is far afield from the topic at hand, which is that the plain language of the ACA prohibits the federal government from distributing tax credits with respect to purchasers of insurance from an FFE.
EDIT: I ended up doing some of your homework with respect to the figures from 2012 - 13. If we assume that
everyone who moved to attend or leave college made an interstate move, and if we assume that every member of the military who moved and gave as a reason for the move "New Job or Job Transfer" or "Other Job Related Reason" made an interstate move and had income of less than $50,000, and if we omit such people from our calculations, then the numbers look like this:
Interstate movement < $50,000: 1.12%
Interstate movement > $50,000: 1.28%
