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Old 02-13-2018, 01:54 PM   #256
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Two percent of American workers have received a pay increase or a bonus tied (Allegedly) to the tax reform. 100% of corporations have received a windfall due to the tax reform.


There is also the question of how much of this is due to the new tax laws and how much to other factors such as a tightening labor market, pending increases in the minimum wage in many states and cities, and the tax benefits of announcing the benefits at this time.
ETA: To say nothing of the propaganda benefits.
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Old 02-13-2018, 02:04 PM   #257
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GM hourly workers to receive $11,750 bonus

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Old 02-13-2018, 02:10 PM   #258
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That's profit sharing. It's in the contract and has nothing to do with the new tax law. It is money the workers earned by working long hard hours.
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ExxonMobile will benefit by $6B this year from the new tax laws.
Has ExxonMobile announced any pay raises or bonuses?

Exxon did say that it will be investing $50B in the US economy over the next five years. How does that compare to previous investment? Over the five year period from 2012 to 2016 Exxon only invested $50B. Oh wait, that's the same!!
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Maybe you should , get a haircut and get a new job.
Get it together like your big brother bob.
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Old 02-13-2018, 02:30 PM   #261
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That's profit sharing. It's in the contract and has nothing to do with the new tax law. It is money the workers earned by working long hard hours.
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Union members who logged at least 1,850 hours in 2017 will receive the profit-sharing payment in their paychecks Feb. 23.

Do the math, that isn't even 40 hours a week. What is long and hard about that? Please explain, also long hard hours and union job don't belong in the same sentence.
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U-Haul will be saving $60M annually in taxes and is giving out $23.6M in bonuses. The bonuses are a one time expense. The tax savings continue indefinitely.
So? Good for them!
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So? Good for them!
Billionaire's are cool.
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Stereotype much?
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Stereotype much?
Yes, tons.
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Yes, tons.
That was a rhetorical question, since I know many libs do.
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That was a rhetorical question, since I know many libs do.
Who you callin lib fatso, You "team" players are something else that is for sure.
You can call me a Libertarian with an anarchist slant .
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Who you callin lib fatso
Actually, I'm tall, slim, mean and trim, airhead.

If you don't like being called a lib, ditch one of their cherish trademarks, which is stereotyping.
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This ain't supposed to happen!

Go Figure: Tax Revenues Climbed $18 Billion In First Month Of GOP Tax Cuts

Fiscal Policy: The Congressional Budget Office says that federal revenues in January added up to $362 billion. That's an increase of $18 billion— or 5.2% — from the year before. As a result, the government ran a surplus of $51 billion that month, which is equal to the previous January.

Wait, weren't the tax cuts supposed to bankrupt the country to benefit the rich? It almost looks like the tax cuts — which took effect in January — are paying for themselves.

That wouldn't be fair, either. As the CBO notes, the new payroll withholding scheduled hadn't fully taken effect in January; companies don't have to update their employee tax withholdings until the middle of this month. When that happens, monthly revenues from individual income taxes will likely slip.

But the latest CBO report does show how a growing economy can make up a lot of the difference between the advertised price of a tax cut and the actual impact on revenues.

The same report says that revenues for the first four months of the current fiscal year — which started last October — were $46 billion higher than the same period the year before.

Individual income and payroll taxes, it says, rose by $68 billion. "That change largely reflects increases in wages and salaries," the CBO says.


https://www.investors.com/politics/e...-gop-tax-cuts/

I'm betting that this month's revenue will exceed last year's also, even though the new withholding schedule will have gone into effect.

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