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First elitist, Nancy Pelosi and now fellow Marxist elite, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, are attacking the bonuses that employees across the United States are receiving as a result of President Donald J. Trump’s tax reform.
Progressives believe, correction are denying that the wage increases, bonuses, increase in the 401k’s of Americans and new jobs resulting from tax reform are beneficial to working Americans who have been suffering after Barack Obama transformed America into a part-time nation. Another chapter in Obama’s legacy that has now gone up in smoke.
The Daily Signal by Jarrett Stepman
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In the latest good economic news following the passage of tax cuts, Home Depot announced that it would be distributing up to $1,000 bonuses to hourly paid workers. The list of companies now sharing the benefits of tax reform with employees is growing long. In 2011, Democrats celebrated a temporary payroll tax cut that netted Americans about $40 per month. They even had a hashtag campaign on Twitter, #40Dollars. But that was during the Obama presidency. Their tune has changed with Donald Trump in the White House. Despite the sudden boon for American workers, prominent progressives are publicly pooh-poohing the new bonuses and salary increases as no big deal, mere “crumbs,” as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D.-Calif., said. “In terms of the bonus that corporate America receives versus the crumbs they are giving to workers to put the schmooze on is so pathetic,” Pelosi said in early January. The median household income in Pelosi’s home district of San Francisco, California, is about $100,000, so it’s natural a $1,000 bonus would seem like peanuts to her. She may be surprised to learn that nearly 7 in 10 Americans don’t even have $1,000 in savings, according to a recent study. So one can fairly conclude that a sudden $1,000 boost in one’s bank account would be a big deal for most people. Pelosi wasn’t the only limousine liberal to dismiss the good news about bonuses. At the same event in which Pelosi bemoaned “fat cats” getting more than average Americans, former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, said: Frankly, if you look at the bonuses, which I haven’t heard of a corporate bonus more than $1,000 so far. Which, by the way, is taxed, so it’s not $1,000. And then you spread $1,000 over the course of the year—to think of about how much that is—of course they get it all at once. But I’m not sure that $1,000 (which is taxed, taxable) goes very [far] for almost anyone. It’s an odd thing to hear Wasserman Schultz blame income taxes for diminishing the size of one’s bonus. After all, not a single Democrat in Congress voted in favor of tax cuts. Certainly, this pessimism toward bonuses and pay raises can at least in part be chalked up to political partisanship. But there may be a deeper reason for their refusal to celebrate good economic news. It’s the same reason that those who fiercely advocated a federal $15 minimum wage are now utterly dismissive of the significant benefits workers are now experiencing. As The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas recently reported, at least 21 companies voluntarily decided to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour as a result of the tax break. This too received no recognition from liberal minimum wage backers[…] |
Their bitter reaction of these elitists show just how much Progressives are out of touch, their disdain for the American independence, the American workforce and American exceptionalism.
Moreover, Progressives are hypocrites. See: Liberals Are Ripping Tax Reform Bonuses. But They Celebrated $40 Under Obama Tax Cut.
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