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| Topic | Majority of Americans not seeing change in paychecks from GOP tax cuts |
| Darkman124 03/28/18 11:06:09 AM #50: | FLUFFYGERM posted... How many of the people sampled pay much if anything in federal income taxes in the first place? Note also that a sizable portion of the sample did see an increase in their income due to the tax cuts. The news wrapped that up in biased rhetoric like "just 32%" but that doesn't mean 32% is a trivial number. probably about half. fwiw, the left's principal narrative was not that 'no one except the rich would see cuts' so much as 'no one except the rich would see cuts of note' which i think we can agree drives a fair portion of this, since whatever cut anyone gets is being divided by 12-52 since it's spread over all their paychecks. the biggest gains certainly went to investors in the form of the market rally over the last year. --- And when the hourglass has run out, eternity asks you about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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