Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

Trump Tax-Cut Bonuses are a Bust for Middle Class Workers, Wages Lie in a Wasteland of Failed Promises
25 June 2018
By David Haggith

No, the Trump tax breaks for major corporations are not going to bonuses and wage increases. Sure we’ve seen some token $1,000 bonuses go out to laborers with hyuge orchestrated fanfare. The stint of articles you saw all over the media earlier in the year about those bonuses originated from an organized PR campaign run by a conservative tax group, and have mostly now ended. Americans for Tax Reform, headed by Grover Norquist, encouraged companies at the start of the year to announce their distribution of tax savings to the lower rungs of personnel as a way of selling the Trump tax breaks after the fact. So far as I know, they are still encourage that, but there isn’t much for them to report.

Even Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who voted for the Trump Tax Cuts as they stand now and who bills himself as a Reaganite, says there is no evidence that happy corporations are sharing the wealth with their workers:


“There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they’re going to take the money they’re saving and reinvest it in American workers,” he says. “In fact they bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there’s no evidence whatsoever that the money’s been massively poured back into the American worker.” (The Economist)

Corporations have never given anything to workers that they weren’t forced to give, whether because of collective bargaining, the need to compete in a tough labor market or government mandates … or as a public-relations necessity. Anyone who thought corporate boards or CEOs were going to let some tax savings trickle down because they have enough money now to share the wealth a little has had no experience with corporations. Labor gets nothing that it doesn’t fight and bargain hard for in full Trumpian style.

You might have asked as I did why Republicans were talking at the beginning of this year about the “need to sell the tax cuts.” Why do you need to sell something after you’ve already passed it? Especially something that people naturally like? The only answers I could come up with were to stem the public outcry over the disproportional benefits to the top 1%, to silence labor a little bit, and mostly to keep people believing in trickle-down economics so Republicans can give another big cut to the top 1% again sometime.

Exactly, as I predicted last year, we now KNOW that the main flow of tax-break money has been into stock buybacks that make CEOs and their board members rich:
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Trump, GOP get failing grades on new tax law

Of course those rights that came from god only applies to gods children born in our borders. Gods children on the other side of the imaginary line drawn by man (not by god) do not have the same unalienable rights, so you know, keep those brown fuckers from infesting us, amirite???!!!

The entire thing of course. It's got to be a comedy routine right, some sort of edgy lefty thing?

Why do you think there are so many people who trust and believe in Donald Trump?

What Trump is doing.

Time even had to print a bogus cover, that's called propaganda.

A majority of this "outrage" has been orchestrated by the MSM and the leftist media.

It wasn't a "bogus cover".

It was a picture of Trump looking down at a distressed child. The child shown was an actual recent immigrant and her photo had been widespread in the media. However, she was not one of the children who had been separated from her parents. Therefore it was somewhat misleading to use her picture in connection with a story inside the mag about the family separations. As soon as Time became aware of this they issued a correction on the matter.

Why do you keep repeating such intentionally misleading info?

And why can't you believe that the outrage over what our government was doing to children at the border was quite real, and spontaneous, and not "orchestrated"? Good grief, it was also expressed by all 4 living former First Ladies, and the current First Lady.