Jim Morin for February 14, 2019

If you were paying less each payday, and thus reduced the refund from “loaning” the money to the govt interest free, you’ve saved. Now if you were a “one percenter” benefitting from the “Trump” tax cuts— each of you saved about what 12 million people combined did.

Obama actually passed a middle class tax cut that was for the middle class. Obama did NOT forget those who others had left behind. He instituted the first every national health care over enormous opposition, established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Elizabeth Warren initially proposed and shepherded through Congress, and tried to enact numerous other policies for middle class relief that were obstructed by RepubliCONs, including to protect veterans, to enact incentives for DOMESTIC job creation (and penalties for off-shoring) and more.

Trump spoke about the “forgotten man” in his inaugural rant, but his policies show that he was only going to remember billionaires, donors, Wall $treet hedge fund managers and corporate CEOs and investors. His tax cut was 100% for billionaires and corporations who already had the most, while allowing more take home pay in workers weekly/biweekly/monthly pay checks that was subtracted from the refunds that would be reduced or eliminated and paid back in taxes owed.

Workers who suckered for the Trump lie — you were warned and did not listen.

Those who did listen get my heartfelt sympathy.

Just what has your “savior” done for YOU lately???

I’m sure some misguided winger will show up to grandly tell us that “your refund is smaller because you took home more each week!”

To which I would reply, “Oh, so it wasn’t really a tax cut for us, just shuffling our own money around. But I’ll bet it’s a real tax cut for the billionaires, that we get to pay for.”

Let’s hope the MAGA crowd doesn’t vote in 2020, the country would be better off.

Facts: 1. Most of the people on welfare are white. 2. To get a refund, one must earn money.

Well you’ve got that nice old TV to keep you warm in the Winter. Stop complaining.

But you’re a racist, so you’ve still got alot going for you. And Fox News will keep you pumped up binky.

When are you people going to wake up?

Not so much forgotten as played.

Ha ha, snerk, you get what you vote for, orange face disaster.

Keep watching Fox News.. You.. specifically are their family.. and not forgotten.. well perhaps a bit, but never mind. Next time.. trump will really care for you

The tax “cut” for the middle class was really just a change in the withdrawal system so they had the illusion of getting more actual money. And, that will only be for a few years, then the tax bill for middle class people will expire. The same bill, however, made genuine tax cuts for the rich permanent.

And tomorrow President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is going to announce that Mexico is paying for the wall. Then Congress is going to totally repeal Affordable Care. All Trump campaign contributions that the “greatest” president is fulfilling and his supporters will hopefully remember in 2020.

So, between 2017, and 2018, my Income rose by the $29 a month Social Security increase at the beginning of 2018, but my refund went DOWN by some $500. Let’s do the math…$29 X 12 + = $348 increase in my income. $348 – $500 = -$152 that I LOST simply because of the "Tax Cut.

Thanks, you orange liar…

So, it seems the old “shell game” of reducing your withholding while ALSO reducing your deductions has finally become clear to even the Trumpian ‘simpletons’ among us – do not feel “too” sorry for the couple in the cartoon, though – they obviously have enough money to waste $35 on a baseball cap that is of the type given away as door prizes at baseball games! They may not understand how to REALLY make America great, again, but they seem to have at least an intuitive grasp of how to make Trump wealthy(er), which is at the root of the Trump Presidency!

Remember the old saying, “A fool and his money are soon parted.” There is a reason axioms such as that are STILL repeated, to this day. We’re just seeing the latest iteration of the “P.T. Barnum” mystique being played out!

MAGA? Just guess who pays?!?

If you use your taxes as an enforced savings plan, you’re ignoring the (admittedly very small) amount of interest that the Feds aren’t paying on the money you gave them too much of. Not right bright, imo. So of course, you’ll ignore the fact that The Orange Maroon got the IRS to issue new withholding rules that gave you an immediate small pay raise at the cost of delayed non-gratification.

Quote the trumpis : “Never give a Sucker an even break.”

Grow up. Get honest. Add up the increase in your take home pay over 2018 and compare that number to the reduction in your refund.

You will find that the “extra” in your pay checks adds up to far more than the reduction in your refund.

^ Quite right; the difference for me was $400,000. How did YOU make out?

What, nothing? You must be one of those poor working schlubs.