the GOP Tax Scam

January 17, 2018

Kentuckians woke up to another great headline this morning: “Humana raising minimum hourly rate to $15 an hour thanks to GOP tax plan”. Humana is based in Louisville and has agencies in Lexington. It employs 12,000 people in Kentucky alone.

While Andy Barr was making this happen for middle-class workers in Kentucky, his opponents were going full Armageddon.

Jim Gray: Says this tax plan will provide “little relief” to families “trying and aspiring to increase their income”

Amy McGrath: “It was always myth that corporations would use their new GOP tax cut windfall to ‘create jobs’.  History shows that they simply pocket a big tax cut.”

Reggie Thomas: Says raising the minimum wage is one of his top three priorities, yet calls tax reform (that does just that) a “scam

Will they:
a) delete the tweets and issue a correction?
b) thank Andy Barr for giving their neighbors a pay raise?
c) double down and hide in a bunker with Nancy Pelosi waiting for Armageddon?