Sarah Sanders' tweet on the $4,000 'pay raise' under Trump's tax cut plan triggers brutal responses
Twitter responded to Sanders' question with a slew of sarcasm-laden answers speculating how they would spend the potential $4,000.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took to Twitter on Sunday (22 October) to ask people what they would do with the possible additional $4,000 (£3,030) the average American family would save under President Donald Trump's tax plan.
"The average American family would get a $4,000 raise under the President's tax cut plan. So how could any member of Congress be against it?" Sanders wrote in a series of tweets. "What would your family do w/ a $4,000 raise from the President's tax cut plan? REPLY & I'll share your family's story in the press briefing.
"Do you stand w/ the Democrats for higher taxes & bigger government? Or w/ @POTUS for lower taxes & thousands more $$$ in take home pay?"
President Trump unveiled his tax reform plan last month, which calls for three individual tax rates of 12%, 25% and 35%.
The plan also lowers the corporate rate from 35% to 20%, as well as nearly doubling the standard deduction and repealing the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax. The White House has claimed that this would increase the average American family's annual income by $4,000.
Economists, however, said the math doesn't seem to add up. According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, the corporate tax rate cut would mostly help the top 1% individuals who made at least $465,626 in 2014.
Meanwhile, Twitter responded to Sanders' question with a slew of snarky, sarcasm-laden and often creative answers speculating how they would spend the potential $4,000.
Many said they would donate towards organizations like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, others said they would contribute to whoever runs against Trump in the 2020 election.
Some also said they would end up spending on healthcare costs that are expected to rise for millions of Americans.
"I'd buy a unicorn, since that's about as real as the $4,000 raise you keep lying about," one Twitter user wrote. Another said: "Build a bomb shelter."
"Donate to any candidate opposing our psychopath in chief," another added.
Pay for part of the increase in my health insurance premium caused by Trump's killing CSR subsidies?
— The Glare â„¢ (@PolPOTUS2017) October 23, 2017
The thing is, it's probably technically true. But the basis is, one person gets a $1 million cut, 249 people get nothing.
— Zenk Moltron (@AggieJack4) October 23, 2017
We’d hire a statistics tutor to teach us the distinction between the mean and the median. https://t.co/m05jmjnAcg
— Seth Masket (@smotus) October 23, 2017
Hire a lawyer to sue the school district that taught y’all math.
— Naomi Kaufman Price (@writeo) October 24, 2017
We'd donate it to charities helping rebuild #PuertoRico since @realDonaldTrump's gov isn't doing the job
— Michael Skvarla (@mskvarla36) October 24, 2017
Donate it to Planned Parenthood
— Lesley Bartlett (@LesleyBartlett_) October 24, 2017
We'd buy a statistics textbook to find the difference between mean and median.
— Anthony Del Signore (@Anthony_John534) October 24, 2017
I have ten apples. I give ten to one person. Nine others get no apple. “On average†each person gets one apple. Republican fuzzy math.
— Juan, P.E. #RESISTâ„ï¸ (@jrivera64) October 24, 2017
I would start a "please let Barack have a 3rd term" fund.
— Shelleygirl (@Shelleygirl1963) October 24, 2017
Do you honestly think Americans are faking for this bullshit? They aren’t.
— Benjamin Kerensa (@bkerensa) October 24, 2017
I would donate it you, in hopes that it would be enough to buy your soul back from the devil. https://t.co/asxtzxuI7e
— Mark Schweitzer (@MarkSchweitzer) October 23, 2017
Buy a lie detector test and put your entire administration through it https://t.co/uMVXCyCYKy
— Liz Plank (@feministabulous) October 23, 2017
Donate to a candidate who’d defeat Trump, and raise my taxes. Thus ensuring the survival of a civilized nation.
— Jenny B. (@JennyBoylan) October 23, 2017
I'd buy a burial plot since the cut you'll make to Medicare to give the "raise" will likely kill my Mom.
— Esther Carrots (@polyestercarrot) October 23, 2017
You mean a fantasy "$4000 raise?" Hell, why not tell people it's a $10K raise. I mean, if you're going to lie, tell a whopper. LOL
— JCESQ (@JCESQ82) October 23, 2017
Dear @PressSec: We would apply $4k to reduce the 40% increase in taxes we get from your elimination of the state/local income tax deduction. https://t.co/JIFRRXtYzj
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) October 23, 2017
I'd pay for a billboard reading "RELEASE YOUR TAX RETURNS RUSSIAN PUPPET. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW"
— The Hummingbird (@SaysHummingbird) October 23, 2017
Thank you @PressSec. I hope you like it. https://t.co/IFUxawc47C
I'd give it to Puerto Rico to remind them that @POTUS may have forgotten about them, but the rest of us haven't.
— Kim Mathews (@Kim4Zen) October 23, 2017
I would donate it to the ACLU so no Jane Does have to suffer the degradation and agony of forced childbirth.
— Sarah Clarke (@sarahannclarke) October 23, 2017
You?
Since his tax plan means 1 family gets a $5 million tax cut while 999 families each pay $1,000 more...I guess I'd buy you a math book.
— Hugh Gurin (@HughG16) October 23, 2017
Why, I would buy drinks for me, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Bigfoot, and more, because the $4k is just as real as they are, right?
— bill ribas (@crankyolddad) October 23, 2017
