Twitter Mocks Sarah Huckabee Sanders for False Claim Trump Tax Reform Will Give Families a $4,000 Raise
‘What Would Your Family Do With a Pet Unicorn?’
President Donald Trump and Republicans are desperate to pass a “tax reform” bill by the end of the year. Chances they will be successful are slim, since this administration literally has had exactly zero major legislative wins since taking office in January. Chances are also slim since no bill has been written yet, and since Trump’s spokespeople, Republican lawmakers, and GOP surrogates are all falsely claiming the nonexistent tax reform bill will give families across America a $4000 annual raise.
Claiming “The average American family would get a $4,000 raise under the President’s tax cut plan,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been asking, “What would your family do w/ a $4,000 raise from the President’s tax cut plan?”Â
Here’s how one person explained the fast one she’s trying to pull:
If I give 10 apples to one person and no apples to nine people, the average person has one apple.
Why are nine people mad at me? https://t.co/ezQWsReU6i
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) October 23, 2017
Huckabee Sanders has been posting these tweets – which are all based on that false premise:
What would your family do w/ a $4,000 raise from the President’s tax cut plan? REPLY & I’ll share your family’s story in the press briefing
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 23, 2017
New report: lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20% = average pay raise of $4,000 annually per householdhttps://t.co/UtDdZ0iSUZ
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 23, 2017
Here’s what former Obama White House Deputy Assistant to the President for economic policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Jacob Leibenluft, who also led Secretary Hillary Clinton’s economic policy team had to say on the press secretary’s claims:
WH can’t sell a middle-class tax cut b/c there isn’t one– they’re resting entire argument on trickle-down effect of corporate tax cuts /fin
— Jacob Leibenluft (@jleibenluft) October 23, 2017
Michael Linden, an economic policy “wonk” and Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute:
Middle-class workers get next to nothing in the Trump tax plan. There is no magic “$4,000” wage increase. The claim is utterly silly.
— Michael Linden (@MichaelSLinden) October 23, 2017
In other words, the claim is false, and like everything else out of the Trump administration, a sham.
Folks on Twitter have decided to mock Sarah Huckabee Sanders for asking, “What would your family do w/ a $4,000 raise from the President’s tax cut plan?” and related claims:
4000 Magic Beans traded for Billionaire Tax Breaks? I don’t think so! Ms Sanders a baiting you with the Dear Leader Circumvolution Stupor! 😂 pic.twitter.com/SMZInVhKqC
— Wmxdesign (@Wmxdesign) October 23, 2017
Nothing. Your plan is going to raise our taxes. #NotOnePenny https://t.co/4BVH3pq1gW
— doug (@DougP1) October 23, 2017
What would your family do w/ a pet unicorn? REPLY & I’ll share your family’s story in the @weeklystandard editorial meeting. https://t.co/Bv2DxLM81K
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 23, 2017
Circa 1789 France: “What would your family do w/ a bread loaf from King Louis?”
— Moab the Dog (@moab_the_dog) October 23, 2017
Dear @PressSec: We would apply $4k to reduce the 40% increase in taxes we get from your elimination of the state/local income tax deduction. https://t.co/JIFRRXtYzj
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) October 23, 2017
Build a bomb shelter. https://t.co/NUzvFnGf76
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 23, 2017
I would donate it to the ACLU so no Jane Does have to suffer the degradation and agony of forced childbirth.
You?
— Sarah Clarke (@sarahannclarke) October 23, 2017
Donate it to the #ImpeachTrump campaign. I look forward to you sharing my story!!
— Pattilynn (@Patti_lynnAZ) October 23, 2017
I would donate it to this https://t.co/RHcb9y41kw and wait for your apology from the President you represent for calling his wife a liar.
— Scary Eeee McSin (@MaryEMcGlynn) October 23, 2017
Ooh! I can’t wait to use it as a down payment on my family’s monthly insurance bill after you take down the ACA.
— Wendy Sang Kelly (@sang_kelly) October 23, 2017
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