Posted on 03/04/2018 12:41:30 PM PST by Ennis85
HALF OF AMERICANS AGREE with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's comments that corporations are giving their workers "crumbs" as a result of the tax bill, according to a poll released Friday by a group aligned with President Donald Trump.
America First Priorities, found 49 percent of respondents agreed with the California Democrat, whose remarks pointed out the disparity in the windfall companies received in December with the passage of a major tax cut compared to the comparatively small bonuses they're handing out to their employees.
"In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on is so pathetic. It's so pathetic," Pelosi said in a Jan. 11 news conference. "And I would hope that with their big advantage of bringing money home at a very low rate, that they would invest in infrastructure and things. But our experience has been that they will do dividends. They will do stock buybacks and things like that. I think it's insignificant."
Trump and congressional Republicans have seized on Pelosi's remarks in an effort to make them this year's version of Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" a disparaging reference to Trump supporters that Republicans effectively used to rally their base during the presidential campaign.
The America First Priorities poll, which was conducted Feb. 16-20, also found 44 percent of respondents approved of Trump's job as president, while 53 percent disapproved. Respondents gave an edge, 44 percent to 37 percent, to Republicans and Trump over Democrats and Pelosi when asked who they trusted more to successfully lead the country.
America First Priorities is a nonprofit super PAC officially designated as a "social welfare organization," meaning that it is not supposed to coordinate directly with Trump, the White House or
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If they feel this way send it back..................waiting waiting........................thought so!
“Crumbs” is way, way more than we got under Obamy.....
You hit the nail on the head.
Patriots need to get up to speed with the idea that if a given federal social spending program is not reasonably related to the US Mail Service (1.8.7) then you can bet that the program is unconstitutional and be right probably most of the time.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." me
Patriots would get an even bigger tax break if they supported Pres. Trump in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot justify under it constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers which the Supreme Court indicated in the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above.
Note that if the citizens of a given state want state social spending services to replace unconstitutional federal spending programs that are discontinued then state taxes must necessarily go up.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Half the people dont pay income tax at all.
I would point out that there were a lot of detractors of the tax cut who posted on the Freerepublic. When is our side going to stop fighting itself?
So why hasn’t Pelosi created Tax Rate Cut Legislation that gives Americans Ribeye Steaks?
I spoke to a nice lady who holds two full time jobs. One is Kroger and the other Home Depot. I asked about the bonus/pay. She said she will get three from HD this year alone.
Actually, libtard blue states like the sh*thole of NJ in which I reside (for now) give NOTHING because the new govtard leftist is a POS along with the state government. My paycheck and property taxes are appalling.
Polls are lies for the gullible.
[Bona Fides: I am an Enrolled Agent and a Seasonal Tax Preparer at H&R Block.] We have a tool for every return that we prepare that shows what the STATIC 2017 data would do under next year's rules. At the moment, 95%+ of my clients would benefit (have larger refunds) but I caution them that their paycheck withholding has already been adjusted to give them more money in each pay period. You can get one (higher pay check) or the other (larger refund) but not both.
The people that are going to be hurt the most are in the high tax states and those who make large use of the Schedule A (Itemized), especially in the "Misc - 2% of AGI" section for Employee Business Expenses and expenses paid to produce income. That section vanishes for the coming years.
Half of Americans don’t pay income tax, of course they are going to complain.
The so called crumbs is a lot more than any working taxpayers would ever get under a Marxist Democrat administration raising taxes on everyone so that they can have more money in the pot to buy more votes with. Buying votes with taxpayer money is the their game.
Yeah - the half that produces nothing and didn’t see their welfare checks go up enough.....
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