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Preview For Tomorrow's Top 10 Conservative Idiots:
Last edited Wed Feb 7, 2018, 12:31 AM - Edit history (1)
Never mind all the Democrats who call the GOP’s tax bill a deficit-busting giveaway to the rich; House Speaker Paul D. Ryan has been enthusiastically promoting it as a middle-class tax windfall.
He’s been coaching other Republican lawmakers to sell the $1.5 trillion tax cut to voters, and telling people on Twitter to check their paychecks for wage hikes. The bill — which was deeply unpopular when it passed along party lines in December — is now breaking even in a new opinion poll.
So Saturday morning, by way of good news, Ryan’s Twitter account shared a story about a secretary taking home a cool $6 a month in tax savings.
Here is the passage in the Associated Press:
Julia Ketchum, a secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week. She didn’t think her pay would go up at all, let alone this soon. That adds up to $78 a year, which she said will more than cover her Costco membership for the year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/03/paul-ryan-celebrated-the-tax-cut-with-a-tweet-about-a-secretary-saving-1-50-a-week/?utm_term=.757272e8a383
He’s been coaching other Republican lawmakers to sell the $1.5 trillion tax cut to voters, and telling people on Twitter to check their paychecks for wage hikes. The bill — which was deeply unpopular when it passed along party lines in December — is now breaking even in a new opinion poll.
So Saturday morning, by way of good news, Ryan’s Twitter account shared a story about a secretary taking home a cool $6 a month in tax savings.
Here is the passage in the Associated Press:
Julia Ketchum, a secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week. She didn’t think her pay would go up at all, let alone this soon. That adds up to $78 a year, which she said will more than cover her Costco membership for the year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/03/paul-ryan-celebrated-the-tax-cut-with-a-tweet-about-a-secretary-saving-1-50-a-week/?utm_term=.757272e8a383
*audience boos*
Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Way to hit the nail on the head on income inequality guys! Because most people want their Costco memberships covered by $1.50 a week! Meanwhile the people who are actually benefiting from the $780,000 they’ll save in tax breaks will never set foot in a fucking Costco!
*audience applauds wildly*
Tomorrow on the Top 10 - Trump released the memo and has his worst day ever, Fox News has an Americagasm over the SOTU, Paul Ryan fails at explaining how raises work, we try some Lady Doritos, we'll introduce you to an actual Illinois Nazi (insert Blues Brothers reference here), and we'll play a game of "Is it racist?". Spoiler alert: probably! Plus we debut our new segment - Top 10 Investigates, where we'll take you inside an Alt Right fight club and show you how hate groups are recruiting on college campuses. And in our weekly sermon of all things holy, Holy Shit, we're going to tell you how Pat Robertson almost met god, and in "I Need A Drink", we're going to discuss the topic of emotional support animals. All this and the next stop of our Shithole World Tour where we'll visit the Central American nation of El Salvador! And February is Black History Month, and we'll be celebrating all month long, and we're going to kick off our celebration with a live performance from The Roots! And hey, they're from Philadelphia! Go Eagles!
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