Trump's tax cuts benefited lower-income people the most

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@Sam_Stone

In reality, it’s not about screwing over the poor - it’s about fooling the voters into supporting something you want or think they need but they won’t accept if you tell it straight.

It can be both, you know.

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@Drum_God

Here are the only numbers that matter to me. I fit into the lower end of the $86K-300K group. Our gross income is in the 80s.

2017 total tax owed: $5446
2018 total tax owed: $6936

That doesn’t look like a tax cut to me.

A couple of other fun numbers. Because of a brief period of unemployment in 2018, our gross income decreased by about $2000. In other words, we made LESS in 2018 than we did in 2017, yet our taxes INCREASED. Even though our gross income dropped a bit, our TAXABLE income increased by $20,000.

These are real numbers from a real middle class couple, both with college degrees and professional jobs.

Trump can shove his “tax cut” up his ass.

Can confirm. I’m an upper-middle-class blue-state liberal, and the limits on SALT meant the difference – without modifying my withholding – between getting a modest refund, and writing a big check. Rude awakening.

[Drum_God]

It really grinds me gears when I hear Trumpists claim that I got a tax cut. No I didn’t. And neither did you. Of course, Trumpism was formed from the Tea Party movement. The Tea Partiers named their movement after a tax protest, yet had virtually no understanding of actual tax policy – in the 18th century or the 21st century.