GOP Pushes US To Brink Of DefaultPosted By Rod Kaufman |
Originally Posted by Richard Davis
They didn't get a "couple hundred bucks", so you're lying, but then I shouldn't be surprised. Lying is what you do on a daily basis.
Most employees got about $1000, some got more, some got less.
I remember when Nancy Pelosi was out bragging about how the Democrats gave taxpayers back $200. Do you remember that?
Then when the tax RATE cuts put in place by the Trump Administration, allowed hundreds of businesses employing MILLIONS of Americans, to give bonuses AND raises to MILLIONS of employees, you play it down?
LOL.
AT&T, the 1st on that list (alphabetically) of companies, gave $1000 bonuses to 200,000 employees.
That's $200,000,000 they gave to employees ALL because of the President Donald J. Trump Tax RATE cuts.
Chrysler Corporation gave Up to $2000 in Bonuses to 60,000 employees.
I realized that you only made it through 1st or 2nd grade math but $2000 is a far cry from a couple of hundred bucks.
Go back to Jr. High and concentrate on Math.
It obviously is NOT your strong point.
"As an example, Connelly noted that AT&T’s announcement of a $1,000 bonus for 200,000 employees “is only 6 percent of the $3 billion tax windfall.” (According to Reuters and Fortune, “The corporate tax overhaul passed by the Trump administration in December helped the telecom book a $19 billion profit in the fourth quarter that will result in $3 billion in extra cash this year.”) Other companies are “pocketing billions of dollars while laying off workers or eliminating benefits for consumers,” he said."Connelly cited a Reuters/Ipsos poll that found just 2 percent of American adults said they had gotten a raise, bonus or other additional benefits due to the Republican tax law.
"As for Pence’s comment that “any leader in America that would say $1,000 in the pockets of working families is crumbs is out of touch with the American people,” we recall that in 2009, Republican leaders, including Pence, mocked the “Making Work Pay” tax credit enacted by Democrats as part of the stimulus package as small. The tax credit amounted to $400 a year for individuals and $800 for couples.
"The $800 then — which has purchasing power today of $934 — is pretty close to the $1,000 Pence talked about this week. Then-House Republican leader John Boehner called the “Making Work Pay” tax credit “paltry.”
"Pelosi first cited the example of AT&T, noting that some of the bonus money paid was already in a union contract. (A spokeswoman for the Communications Workers of America told the Washington Post that the bonuses were not a part of a union contract agreement announced in late December, but “are a result of conversations between CWA President Christopher Shelton and AT&T’s [chief executive Randall] Stephenson.”)"
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/02/pelosis-crumbs-comment-context/
