Social media users slam Ryan for tweet on $1.50 pay hike

[underpants]

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was criticized Saturday on social media for citing a Pennsylvania woman whose paycheck went up by $1.50 a week as a success of the recently passed GOP tax-reform bill.

Ryan tweeted a link to an Associated Press report detailing how some workers have begun to see more take-home pay as the result of new withholding guidelines following the passage of the bill.


The AP featured multiple workers who have seen an increase in their pay, including Julia Ketchum, a high school secretary in Pennsylvania. Ketchum’s paycheck increased by $1.50 a week, and she told the AP the increase would cover her Costco membership for the year.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/372165-ryan-slammed-for-tweet-on-gop-tax-bill

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. I did on my Facebook page detailing ..........

What that $1.50 per week means to less payroll taxes being collected q for Social Security and Medicare. The elderly and poor are being screwed over in the public. Multiply that by tens of millions of workers weekly, that adds up guickly with that money going into the hands of the 1%.

My friends were outraged.

[liberalmuse]

3. Could you post that here in DU?

For more visibility.

[Ohiogal]

2. Tone deaf

sanctimonious ass.