If our gubmint actually thinks that $4,000 is going to sway anyone's opinion about "tax reform" I've got news for them.  No one gives a red rat's ass about $4,000. 

It's nothing.

It means nothing to most american households because most of the american people will have to take that measley $4,000 and use it to pay an outstanding bill.  Why don't they attack bigger problems, like rising gas prices, rising power/electric/natural gas prices, rising food prices, rising clothing prices, rising EVERYTHING prices?  Do they even know what it costs to get one lousy tooth pulled??  Do they care?  Hardly.

I think some of these overprotected senators and representatives oughta hafta live in REAL life for a while before they start setting rules and guidelines for the rest of us.  Most of them don't know straight up.

The only people who are going to gain anything from this so-called $4,000 "increase" is our very own gubmint, who will eventually get it back - in spades - because people hafta pay bills.  The only other people who MIGHT benefit from this is the doctors, hospitals, and clinics around the world because people will hafta use this "increase" to pay outstanding medical bills.  These people KNOW everyone will qualify for that "tax increase" so they're already poised to take it away from the people who need it most.

I don't call what it's going to do "an increase or a benefit" in the least.