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goldenheart

(168 posts)
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 07:50 PM Apr 2018

Trumps tax cuts didnt benefit American workers

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition" ~ THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785



President Donald Trump’s corporate tax cuts might not have trickled down to American workers in the way that he suggested they would.

Trump and Republican leadership have long touted their tax cuts as a massive boon to America’s working class, if not through direct tax reductions or refunds, then through the trickle-down effect of bonuses and wage increases from their employers who receive massive corporate cuts. “Tax reform is working,” Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said in January, mentioning Apple’s decision to reward a bonus of $2,500 in stock grants to some Apple employees. “Workers are coming home and telling their families they got a bonus, or they got a raise or they got better benefits.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/trumps-tax-cuts-didnt-benefit-american-workers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

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Trumps tax cuts didnt benefit American workers (Original Post) goldenheart Apr 2018 OP
Tax cuts for the rich are stupid Gothmog Apr 2018 #1
There seems to be tons of stupid lately. democratisphere Apr 2018 #3
Here's your bonus Ohiogal Apr 2018 #2
Yup BlueDog22 Apr 2018 #4
The tax cuts Matthew28 Apr 2018 #5
I know a hard-right-winger trumper who just got axed. Ilsa Apr 2018 #6

Matthew28

(1,798 posts)
5. The tax cuts
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 08:34 PM
Apr 2018

For the rich weren't for the workers that slave away for the rich all day...Nope, they were for the rich to have even more of the pie.

Yet the freaking idiot keeps voting for the knife that slices their own necks.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
6. I know a hard-right-winger trumper who just got axed.
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 08:35 PM
Apr 2018

Layoffs. This person, with decades of experience, was a year or two shy of collecting Social Security. A real burn. I feel sorry, though because of their age will hurt getting a new job.

Meet the new trump economy.

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