GOP rep says middle-class workers don’t deserve tax cuts because that’s “socialism”

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

 

It would be nice if a member of Congress who sits on the House Financial Services Committee understood what "tax cuts" actually are.

North Carolina Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger

MSNBC

 

According to North Carolina Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger, whether or not the government giving you money counts as “socialism” depends upon how much money you already have.

Massive tax breaks for wealthy people and corporations are all about “jobs” and investing in the economy, despite the fact that corporations have made it blatantly clear they intend to do no such thing.

 

 

But handing that money directly to middle-class and low-income Americans, so that they can get by from day to day and put that money right back into the economy? That’s not a tax cut — that’s socialism.

And to add to his bizarre economic ideas, Pittenger also apparently thinks a large majority of working Americans own stock in corporations, which would certainly be news to the roughly half of the country that doesn’t.

MSNBC’s Katy Tur tried valiantly to show Pittenger the pitfalls in his thinking, but toeing the Republican Party line on their tax scam has become something of a religion for the GOP, and no amount of actual facts will seemingly work to dissuade them.