Repubs issued fact sheet about their new tax cut plan that grouped 450K as "low - middle income"

[Demovictory9]

That's rich! Republicans suddenly believe that 1 percenters are barely struggling to be in the middle class, party officials revealed.

On Thursday, House Republicans issued a fact sheet about their new tax cut plan that referred to Americans earning $450,000 a year as "low- and middle-income"—even though that income level would put those taxpayers in the top 0.5 percent of all individual Americans.

The median household income in the United States is $59,039, after all.

The GOP made the announcement as part of the rollout of the tax cut plan, saying they would cut tax rates from 39.6 percent to 35 percent for those $450,000-earning middle-class members—but the announcement was quickly overshadowed by the Republicans' bizarre understanding of wealth.


https://www.newsweek.com/tax-cuts-republicans-middle-class-trump-701094

[riversedge]

1. what a bunch of Rupug dummies. damn

[rickford66]

3. They're not dummies.

They know exactly what they're doing.

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[ck4829]

4. Wow... I once saw a book with a line that described 10k annually as "middle class"

This was from the 1960's.

[neeksgeek]

5. Remember, those of us on the bottom are "takers"

No matter what job we low earners do, teacher, travel agent, stock clerk, groundskeeper... we are “useless eaters” to the 0.1%.

I agree with rickford above, they know exactly what they’re doing, as asinine as it is. They’re redefining terms to make it easy to disregard the rest of humanity.