{"id":2236,"date":"2018-02-06T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/06\/1-50\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T02:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T02:54:00","slug":"1-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/1-50\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.50"},"content":{"rendered":"

One dollar and fifty cents. That’s the tax cut for one person Paul Ryan celebrated this weekend. His now-deleted tweet also highlighted the bait-and-switch of the Republican strategy to highlight tiny tax cuts for workers, while giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy and big corporations.<\/p>\n

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Here are a few numbers that might leave Paul Ryan “pleasantly surprised:”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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$60<\/a> – Annual cost of a Costco membership.<\/p>\n

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$19,000<\/a> – Estimated tax cut Paul Ryan receives from the Trump tax.<\/p>\n

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$500,000<\/a> – A single contribution Paul Ryan got from the Koch brothers after passing the Trump tax.<\/p>\n

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$3.1 billion<\/a> – Profit Chevron got from the Trump tax.<\/p>\n

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$6 billion<\/a> – A gift Exxon gets from the Trump tax.<\/p>\n

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$11 billion<\/a> – Amount Pfizer gained from the Trump tax.<\/p>\n

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$17 billion<\/a> – Nearly the total amount Verizon saves due to the Trump tax.<\/p>\n

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$20 billion<\/a> – Amount AT&T has already profited from the Trump tax.<\/p>\n

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            $47 billion<\/a> – Savings Apple could reap from the Trump tax.<\/p>\n

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$60 billion<\/a> –  Amount Citigroup plans to pay out to their shareholders.<\/p>\n

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$190 billion<\/a> – The boost the oil industry got from the Trump tax.<\/p>\n

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$1.5 trillion<\/a> – Total cost of the Trump tax, with the top 1% getting more than 80%<\/a> of the benefits over the next decade.<\/p>\n

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Priceless<\/a> – Paul Ryan having to delete a tweet that reveals the truth about the Trump tax, after being ridiculed for being out-of-touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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