White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Sunday asked Twitter users what they would do with money President Donald Trump’s administration believes the “average” American family would save under his tax plan–and the responses were brutal.
“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?”
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
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) October 23, 2017
Some people were quick to point out that the suggestion that every “average American family” would be receiving $4,000 was misleading. According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent would mostly help people who made at least $465,626 annually.
But other people played along with the idea that a magical $4,000 check would land in their laps. As one Twitter user put it, “this isn’t gonna go well for you, Sarah.”
They were right.
https://twitter.com/MikeGianella/status/922274868053397505
https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/922276874105090048
https://twitter.com/AndySchwartz12/status/922470799226814466
Build a bomb shelter. https://t.co/NUzvFnGf76
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/peskysnowflake/status/922467948987478016
https://twitter.com/DieLaughing/status/922269983585038336
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 (SUBSCRIBE TO MY SUBSTACK) (@feministabulous) October 23, 2017
What any other right minded individual would do, add it to @ImLarryFlynt $10M reward for information leading to @realDonaldTrump impeachment https://t.co/0V7XlGYoeb
— ALBΞRT MacGloan (@AlbertMacGloan) October 23, 2017
I’d buy 445 meatball sandwiches https://t.co/aQ7ssxbQxL
— Zoo With Roy (@zoowithroy) October 23, 2017
Donate to Planned Parenthood! Buy Hamilton tickets! Distribute copies of Handmaid's Tale & 1984 to teens! https://t.co/kXaQEpLbRM
— Faith Salie (@Faith_Salie) October 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/smotus/status/922435785713860608
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/922273286062575616
Somehow, it doesn’t seem likely Sanders will be sharing any of those ideas during the next press briefing.