Did your household get a $5000 raise last year? Mike Pence says you did.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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[UniteFightBack]

1. Well he's got the 5 right. I saw an extra 520 in pay for the year and no difference in money back

at tax time. I earned more on my survey sites for cripes sake.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Nope. Ours did not go up...

But then, we are semi-retired.

If it were not for the fact that I run a small business from Home, we would have had to pay in for 2018 taxes. We did get a few bucks back, but nothing to write home about. Owed State Taxes though.

[Siwsan]

3. I think someone drank the extra potent kool aid, tonight

[woodsprite]

31. Or spent some time "on his knees". nt

[Iliyah]

4. No.

[RandySF]

5. I just moved into a new job no thanks to Trump.

[Mrs. Overall]

6. That's the amount of money our household taxes went up earning the same salaries for years.

We paid exactly 5 grand more.

[Bettie]

7. I wish!

That would have been great.

Nope. We didn't have to pay in, but our taxes were much higher. Husband has his withholding set high though, to ensure that we never have to pay in.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. I beg to differ with you, Mikey, but I never saw it on my pay stub..

I'd have to see some proof to back up his claims.

[uponit7771]

9. We got a new 6000 tax bill

[Atticus]

10. "Average" is one of the most abused and least understood words in our language.

After a hard day on your feet, a nice warm---say, 122 degree---foot soak sounds pretty good, right?

Ok, so let's put your right foot in a bucket of 32 degree (freezing) water and your left foot in a bucket of 212 degree (boiling) water.

Comfy?

Surely, your feet feel great because the average temp of the water they're in is 122 degrees.

Another example: if there are 10 people in a room and 9 are unemployed and the other has a job that pays $1,000,000 a year, the AVERAGE income of those in the room is $100,000. So, everyone is eating and paying their bills, right?

As Daddy used to say: "Figures can lie and liars can figure".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. True

I said as much in my reply to him. Median would have been a better figure. I mean it's likely those who received a sizable tax cut skewed the average.

[Takket]

11. yeah sure Mike.....

because one person getting a billion dollar tax cut vs. 199,999 people getting jack shit averages out to $5000 per household

[demtenjeep]

13. hell no

that would be good



where is it?

[In_The_Wind]

14. Nope, not even close.

[smirkymonkey]

15. Uh, no. Not even close.

[Clarity2]

16. Nope

My husband took a pay cut this yr, and our tax return was reduced by 75% (1k back vs 4-5k). We are on an austerity budget, which I’m calling it our own economic boycott.

[NanceGreggs]

17. And exactly what does Pence consider ...

... to be "the average household"?

[Rebl2]

18. Certainly did not!

[stopbush]

19. $3000 tax refund in 2017, $5000 taxes owed in 2018.

Fuck you, Pence, you fucking asshole.

[maxrandb]

20. Well, if a millionaire got $500,000 and 99 other families got "bupkus"

Then the "average" of those 100 Americans income rose by $5,000.

Fuck you Mike "lovingly gazing" Pence...go fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition Hard Cover copy of Atlas Shrugged you worthless piece of amphibian shit.

[Olafjoy]

21. Paid more

Hate that MFer so much. Sorry for the profanity. The mass shootings, now forgotten, because we have to discuss Greenland put me back in rage mode.

[Talitha]

22. Drop dead....

$5000?? Ok, send it to me dude.

'Cause I never got mine.

You already knew that though.

[DFW]

23. Hardly

I pay 50% in Germany already (90% where the Germans choose to ignore the double taxation treaty). The only raise my household got last year was in utilities bills.

Mike Pence knows as much about my household finances as he knows about classical Chinese calligraphy.

[RobinA]

24. My Tax

was $500 less than the previous year. I'm rolling in it now!!!

[ck4829]

25. No

[Clash City Rocker]

26. The comments call him on it right away

The median income rose 1.3%, but cost of living rose 2.44%. So the average American made less real money.

Where he got his number I don’t know. Maybe he took a poll at the country club and assumed it applied to all Americans.

[Vinca]

27. My husband's income has been a little better this year, but it's tied to low interest rates and the

housing market. It has nothing to do with Trump. It's always been this way. You have a good year, then a mediocre year, than a better year and periodically it tanks. My income hasn't changed and it's primarily based on what's hot and what's not in the antique and collectibles business. Why Pence is a devoted cult member of the least Christian man on earth is a mystery.

[Newest Reality]

28. Ah, Mike

He is either a pathological liar, (which seems to be the essence of his recent tweets) or our new Minister of Propaganda at Minutrue, or both. In fact, it qualifies him for the job.

That sheep suit fits him well, though, but you can see the drool sliding down his chin. Mother would agree, methinks.

[woodsprite]

29. No, that was what our tax payment increased by.

With previously legal deductions being unallowed, itemization changes, plus Trump’s “tax cut”. First time in 34 yrs of marriage that we’ve ever had to pay.

Hubby switched to claiming single so they’d withhold the most possible. So now we’re paying Trump & Co $400 extra a month. Should have only needed to increase it by $220/mo to cover the difference, but in knee jerk reaction and a quick fix requiring no math, we’re ending up giving extra to the govt to “hold” for us. Pisses me off!

[Chipper Chat]

30. A gallon of milk cost me 3.99 yesterday.

A package of Kraft cheese slices that cost 4.98 a few years ago cost me 7.49.

[MichMan]

32. We only got $2800 more

Wish it was 5k, but happy to get half of that. The increase in the standard deduction was a big deal for us come tax time as a married older couple with no dependents. Have not been able to itemize for years, so ended up paying $2800 less in taxes compared to 2017

[lark]

33. Repugs are nothing but bald faced liars, all of them, all of the time.

Pence is just another jerk, lying, Russian Repug who touts his fuhrer's lies at every opportunity. There is no Christianity in his entire body, just hate, power grubbing, lies, criminality and treason. That's why drumpf likes him, there is no him in there.

[Cairycat]

34. Any extra money we got was immediately

eaten up by the yearly big jacking up of health insurance premiums, as well as increases in the cost of necessities like groceries. 3% raise doesn't do a lot of good when health insurance goes up by 10%!