Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday downplayed the GOP’s rejection to including a payroll tax cut in the next COVID relief bill by shifting the blame to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
The payroll tax cut had bipartisan opposition and it is the Democrats fault?
A bad idea is a bad idea.
Mnuchin’s fantasy ends soon. And he knows it.
Mnuchin’s response is clearly delineated in the Trump handbook under “reversals of fortune”–blame Democrats because…
No. There is still time for his wet dream.
Any one with more than $1 million in investment income pays Zero Tax.
Call it the “The Reward Job Creators Act.”
Republicans were against it precisely because they knew it would a useful talking point to blame on Democrats.
“We’re giving people too much $$$, they don’t want to go back to work, so we have to cut the extra $600 in unemployment benefits.”
How about instead of taking away my $600 a week, maybe, just maybe, raise wages to a fucking living wage level.
When will Republicans blame Democrats for the Trump Administration?
The benefit of the reduction in the payroll tax only goes to the employed. Those needing the money the most, who will quickly spend it to help the economy, the unemployed and out of work, do not have the paycheck from which to be helped.
Unrepentant stone cold liars and mountebanks.
I’ll happily take the blame for that. It just means that for now social security and medicare won’t be cut.
Mnuchin needs to be politically dismembered.
His body can walk the streets aimlessly … while his political career should be run through a wood chopper… of course, if this is not acceptable … maybe he would prefer incarceration.
if you’re ever asked for “the Republican Party… in a nutshell!” by a foreign and/or apolitical friend, just point to this obsessive desire to pass a concession that helps people who’ve kept their jobs, but not those who’ve lost them.
Mnuchin went on to tout tax credits that he believes will “incentivize people to get back to work and small businesses to hire people” as well as direct payments that are a “much quicker way of effectively giving everybody a tax cut.”
How are tax credits supposed to help people without a job, genius?
Thinking tax cuts will fix the economy is about as smart as thinking the Coronavirus will eventually just go away and die a peaceful death.
They don’t need to — the Bernie Dead-enders already do that.
They already do.
“If the Democrats hadn’t nominated such a damaged candidate.”
trump used to be a Democrat, and this has all been an elaborate deep-state conspiracy to make the republican party look bad.
Joe Scarborough has only said that about a thousand times.
This is a bogus claim on several levels, but the most glaring is -
If an employer calls an employee back to work and the employee refuses to go back, the employee loses their unemployment benefits.