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TDale313

(7,820 posts)
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 05:34 PM Feb 2019

Is it awful that it makes me smile

Seeing Middle Class and Working Class voters who voted Republican in 2016 completely shocked and pissed to realize their taxes actually went up because of tax bill? Dumbasses- we told ya you were never their target audience. Enjoy paying for Congress repugs Billionaire buddies’ and donors’ 10th yacht. 🙄

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Is it awful that it makes me smile (Original Post) TDale313 Feb 2019 OP
Nope PJMcK Feb 2019 #1
No, as long as you remember... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #2
Absolutely. TDale313 Feb 2019 #4
I'm going to pay thousands more this year, but it's almost worth the price. Squinch Feb 2019 #3
"One should never Doreen Feb 2019 #5
So, no schadenfreude when Trumplodytes suffer? Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #6
Nine Doreen Feb 2019 #8
Nine times nein... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #9
Oops, I know that to. Doreen Feb 2019 #11
I knew that high school German would come in handy... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #14
Yeah, but it is more embarrassing for me. Doreen Feb 2019 #16
It is not awful that you are smiling. TheCowsCameHome Feb 2019 #7
It's a great campaign issue handed to us on a platter. Advocate for tax cuts for the middle class, jalan48 Feb 2019 #10
Pain is a swift teacher Blue Owl Feb 2019 #12
Did their taxes actually go up? Or was their withholding lowered unrealistically? JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #13
In a way, both... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #15

PJMcK

(21,985 posts)
1. Nope
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 05:36 PM
Feb 2019

The Deplorables deserve everything they get.

Too often they're too dense to realize that their support for Trump has real-life consequences.

Idiots.

Wounded Bear

(58,573 posts)
2. No, as long as you remember...
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 05:38 PM
Feb 2019

that innocent people are being affected, too.

We're all in this together and the Trumplodytes are pulling the rest of us down with themselves.

TDale313

(7,820 posts)
4. Absolutely.
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 05:45 PM
Feb 2019

And would much rather none of this was happening and that the bill had been blocked. That said, those who supported him and the Repugs and are now finding that coming home to roost? Having a hard time working up much sympathy for them.

Squinch

(50,897 posts)
3. I'm going to pay thousands more this year, but it's almost worth the price.
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 05:43 PM
Feb 2019

Not really, but I am enjoying their misery.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
5. "One should never
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 05:45 PM
Feb 2019

find pleasure in the suffering of another even if the other brought it upon themselves."


Oh, screw it, it makes me smile!!!!!

I do feel pain for those who had it forced on them.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
16. Yeah, but it is more embarrassing for me.
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 08:18 PM
Feb 2019

I lived there for two years ( yeah, only from 8-10 ) and my brother was a German consultant. I also have a German friend and his sister I hang out with a lot. Yeah, so I want to crawl under a rock.

jalan48

(13,834 posts)
10. It's a great campaign issue handed to us on a platter. Advocate for tax cuts for the middle class,
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 06:03 PM
Feb 2019

and tax increases for the multi-millionaires and billionaires.

Blue Owl

(50,225 posts)
12. Pain is a swift teacher
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 07:27 PM
Feb 2019

One WOULD THINK this would teach a trump-voting dumbass a lesson or two...

One WOULD THINK...

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,314 posts)
13. Did their taxes actually go up? Or was their withholding lowered unrealistically?
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 07:29 PM
Feb 2019

Either would create a nasty surprise when doing taxes.

Wounded Bear

(58,573 posts)
15. In a way, both...
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 07:44 PM
Feb 2019

Many deductions were eliminated or reduced, and it looks like withholding was decreased, too.

Bottom line, more taxes due come end of year.

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