Pic Of The Moment: How About Those Trump Tax Cuts Huh?!?

[Hoyt]

26. Hate WalMart, but they actually pay better than average similar type, smaller, store in rural areas.

I've worked in mom-and-pop stores and national stores. I much prefer the national stores for pay and whatever benefits are available. The mom-and-pop places are usually better from a social standpoint in that you know the owners, it feels more like "family," etc., but the pay sucks.

Point is, our problems aren't WalMart. It's the whole system.


As to the bonuses and pay increases, I bet the average employee will be grateful, even if they are getting only a small portion of the tax cut.

The 2% in the meme above really doesn't accurately portray the situation because it takes one year of bonuses (apparently without factoring in pay increases, increases in benefits) and compares it to 10 years of projected tax cuts. If you take one year of bonus (leaving out pay increase, etc.), it's really 22% of the value of one year of tax cut if the average bonus is $190 for 2.1 million employees. Arguably that is not enough, but I prefer to keep the message accurate rather distorting stats like GOPers.

The second point is that we have to get out the vote in 2018 and 2020 because there will be a lot of voter-employees out there who look positively at their pay checks after "trump's tax cut," bonuses like Walmarts, etc., and a better feeling of security because unemployment is pretty low (thanks to Obama), and say it really is the economy and it seems to have gotten better under trump (again, we all know it is result of Obama, but the average Joe/Jane ain't going to care). Not saying it's all great, but to someone who hasn't had a lot of good news, particularly in paychecks, many will be pleased. Unfortunately, many will be doubly pleased if trump deports a bunch of Hispanics. We've got some work to do to win in 2018/2020.