Check Your Wallet: Can You Find the $4,000 Trump Promised You?

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It was a promise that couldn’t have been clearer: when President Trump sold his tax scam to Congress and the American people, he said the average family would see a $4,000 pay raise from their employers. “I would expect to see an immediate jump in wage growth,” added Kevin Hassett, head of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisors.

That was last October. The tax bill passed in December, and it’s now Labor Day, a good time to review how if at all the Trump-GOP tax scam is actually serving working people.

For most of them there’s a simple answer: it’s not. They’re still waiting for that $4,000 pay raise they were promised. Trump admitted as much (unknowingly perhaps) when he boasted during a speech marking the six-month anniversary of the tax cuts that “more than 6 million workers have received bonuses, pay raises, and retirement account contributions” because of the new law.

But do the math. Six million workers are barely 4% of the overall U.S. workforce of 155 million. So how about the other 96%? Incredibly, when you add in the rising cost of gasoline, prescription drugs and other necessities, real wages for most Americans have declined from a year ago.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/03/check-your-wallet-can-you-find-4000-trump-promised-you

[CatMor]

1. I keep looking but I can't seem to find it.

[rurallib]

2. With inflation my wallet grows thinner by the day.

The inflation and the potential crash of the economy are real world concerns.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. Funny, the ever shrinking worker's wages is exactly what is happening in Russia too.

Of course their average wages are about a third of what the US average wage is. But if ever declining poverty wages are good enough for Putin's people, they are good enough for Americans.

[LoisB]

4. IQ45 put mine in HIS wallet.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. But there is a raise

... in profits:

[MiniMe]

6. It bypassed my wallet and went straight to a 1%ers wallet

[NanceGreggs]

7. The people who believed ...

... they were getting a $4,000 tax break are the same people who believed Trump could force Mexico to pay for his wall, and that he'd bring jobs back to US - despite the fact that he has everything used in his hotels and golf resorts manufactured in low-wage countries overseas.

Sadly, there is still no cure for stupidity.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. Maybe Dubya can find it behind the curtains with the WMDs.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

[tavernier]

9. Stole my reply

[AwakeAtLast]

10. That usually happens to me!

Guess my fingers were flying faster today. Must have been the extra sleep on this day off.

[haele]

11. Nope. I'll get $230 more this year in my paycheck

A Govvie senior engineer who makes around $120k is only getting around $750 or so this year.
Not counting the increase in health premiums, mind you.
And we both get to pay more in taxes next year.

Some $4000 gift from the Troll.

Haele

[AnnieBW]

12. I Can't

I'm a Federal Employee. Cheetolini cancelled my COLA.

[RussBLib]

13. Trump said we would get 'so rich, so fast'

No doubt that added to his ... appeal.

An epic liar, unlike any we have seen before.

[Totally Tunsie]

14. Melania used hers to buy her gardening outfit.

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[roamer65]

15. His stupid ass tariffs killed my shot at a decent bonus.

I hope the fucker has a heart attack and dies.

Or better yet, chokes to death on a KFC chicken bone.