Trump-backing Amazon worker counting on GOP tax cuts to help him buy 'food and stuff'

[workinclasszero]

Trump-backing Amazon worker counting on GOP tax cuts to help him 'buy food and stuff'
Travis Gettys 23 OCT 2017 AT 09:30 ET

A Pennsylvania Trump voter who gained notoriety for accidentally shooting himself at a Confederate rally said he’s counting on Republican tax cuts to help him afford basic necessities.

The 23-year-old Marine Corps veteran, who volunteered for the Obama campaign five years ago, is especially hopeful that GOP tax cuts will leave him with more of his $21,000 yearly salary.

“All that money I would get back every check which would help me pay my bills, my truck payment, buy food and stuff, take care of my dog, my girlfriend, my apartment — everything,” Hornberger said. “So it’s a big deal. I hope they get it done.”

The self-described patriot and volunteer firefighter’s income would place him in the lowest quintile, which could put him in line to receive a $100 tax cut, according to an analysis by FactCheck.org.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/trump-backing-amazon-worker-counting-on-gop-tax-cuts-to-help-him-buy-food-and-stuff/?comments=disqus

[Wounded Bear]

1. Apparently, ignorance really is bliss...

[muntrv]

4. Doncha know? Someday he's gonna be a millionaire and he doesn't want the gubmint takin' his money!

[Wounded Bear]

5. Yep, Americans are never "poor"...

They are just temporarily disadvantaged millionaires.

[roamer65]

13. Yep. Two dollar millionaires.

[Thomas Hurt]

26. and cognitive dissonance is a harsh mistress...

[HughBeaumont]

2. Amazing.

A tax cut is now supposed to be a substitute for a living wage.

What's he going to do when his job is automated out of existence?

Amazon sure didn't own the retail Earth by paying their workers well.

[workinclasszero]

19. IKR?

Well he did vote for the pussy grabber so......

[matt819]

3. You would think

that Amazon or its subcontractors would screen for stupid. Guess not.

[Wounded Bear]

6. They do screen for stupid...

intelligence is a disqualifier.

[mercuryblues]

7. Just think

if he could do all that with an extra $100 a year ($1.90 a week), what he could do with all the money he could save by not buying guns and shooting himself at KKK rallies.

[madinmaryland]

12. Two cans of chunk light tuna in water.

[workinclasszero]

20. Gunz is moar important than food and a roof over your head, ' Make 'Merica great again baby!

What would the guise at the kkklan rally say if he didn't show up at the next hate event without one??

[cyclonefence]

8. That's $100 per *year* numbnuts

What's upsetting to me is that this guy got to be a Marine. Aren't there basic intelligence requirements?

[FSogol]

10. Front line infantry!

[rock]

34. Yes

And he passed, his were low enough. (Hey! I was in the Army and had several good Marine friends. We used to joke with each other.)

[Thor_MN]

39. Friends told me how they helped get guys through basic training...

One had three practice grenades go off in his hand (apparently counting was not his strong suit). Another passed marksmanship with help from others - once they had scored the minimum, they placed shots on his target as he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

By definition, half of the people have IQs less than 100. There are no low IQ detention centers (some would argue that red states qualify), so half the people you see each day are less than average.

[mikeysnot]

9. Trump supporters once again proving they are not

deep thinkers....

[dalton99a]

11. "All that money I would get back"

[workinclasszero]

21. Yeah...

How.can.they.be.sooooooooo.stupid?

[gratuitous]

14. Or, Mr. Hornberger . . .

Amazon could bump your pay by $0.25 an hour, and you'd have far more than $100 extra at the end of the year. But why should Amazon pay you any more, when you're so willing to work for peanuts now? If only you had someone to help negotiate your salary and benefits, someone with a little more smarts than you.

[standingtall]

15. 21,000 a year an apartment

shouldn't he be eligible for snap to help him pay for you know food and stuff? That probably has more value than the measly $100 tax cut he will get.

[ileus]

16. His answer is as it's always been....a second job.

[D_Master81]

17. As a professional tax preparer

I do taxes for a living in the winter months while i wait for work to pick back up in my year round work. Someone making 21K a year w/ no kids, assuming he's claiming himself, would receive a standard deduction and exemption of approx $10,000. So his taxable income would be $11,000 placing him in the 10% bracket. so he's only paying $1,100 a year in fed taxes. unless they pretty much do away with the lowest bracket, or double the standard deduction as has been floated, he wont get that much of a break. At best he's gonna get about $1000/year which is nothing to sneeze at. But I think some of these people are thinking Trump is gonna make magic pixy dust money appear and its not.

[mercuryblues]

18. under the proposal

as it stands now, he will be lucky if he gets an extra $100 a year. It is basically a rob Peter to pay Paul scheme.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-plan-doubled-standard-deduction-2017-9


Here's the important fine print: "To simplify the tax rules, the additional standard deduction and the personal exemptions for taxpayer and spouse are consolidated into this larger standard deduction."


Here's how that math works. Let's say you are single with no dependents, and you have a moderate income. Currently, you get to take the standard deduction ($6,350) and one personal exemption ($4,050). If you are 65 or older, you also get to take an additional standard deduction ($1,250). That adds up to $10,400, or $11,650 if you're over 65.


The Republican plan would replace all these provisions with a single deduction of $12,000 ($24,000 for married couples.) That's a 15% increase — except for seniors, who get a 3% increase.


And then your first dollar of taxable income would be subjected to a 12% tax rate, instead of the current 10%. But don't worry — the framework says "additional tax relief," as yet unspecified, will emerge for you during the committee process.

[TeamPooka]

22. According to the GOP it's his own fault for not being rich. nt

[workinclasszero]

23. And yet he supports and voted for

his own executioner.

Good job Fox 'news', hate radio, Russian internet army and probably the preacher at his church. SMH

[TeamPooka]

24. fuck that guy. The rich will enjoy his tax cut.

[workinclasszero]

25. They sure as hell will

Not to mention his medicare/medicaid which will be destroyed in Trump's tax cut for billionaires.

[AJT]

27. That hundred dollars should come in handy for his higher medical insurance costs.

[guillaumeb]

29. He is young and healthy.

And will remain so forever. Thus he has no need for insurance.

[awesomerwb1]

28. Can someone break the news to him?

Probably won't be happy....or he'll just say "fake news".

[CrispyQ]

30. He's as out of touch with reality as the assholes who penned this shit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/28/gary-cohn-says-1000-in-tax-savings-can-buy-a-family-a-car-kitchen.html

"If we allow a family to keep another thousand dollars of their income, what does that mean? They can renovate their kitchen, they can buy a new car, they can take their family on vacation, they can increase their lifestyle," he said. "That's what our tax plan has to do."

[Yavin4]

31. Pssst...wanna know how to really raise your pay? JOIN A FUCKING UNION!!!!!

An collectively bargain for a real cost of living wage. At $21K, you are working for fucking free for the richest man in the world.

[LonePirate]

32. Idiots like him are why they are pushing that $4,000 average tax cut nonsense.

The deplorables and other low information voters think they will be getting that $4K or close to it when in fact they will receive merely pennies or may even pay more.

The wealthy and their Republican puppets continue to engage in class warfare much to the delight and ignorance of these idiots.

[Freethinker65]

33. Seems like a good candidate for a teaching position at a DeVos approved for-profit charter school.

Give him a raise to $22K/year and let him put his math and economic skills to use teaching the nation's youth.

This is what the GOP wants, a nation of easily exploitable uneducated citizens.

[3catwoman3]

36. He can teach math, accounting...

...and economics.

[Golden Raisin]

35. There is a reason public education in this country

has been underfunded and diminished for decades. A pliable, gullible, under-educated electorate is desired by the 1% and the Corporate/Congressional powers that pull all the strings. If citizens' education is minimal and they've never taken a basic "Civics" course or read the Constitution they don't even know when their rights are being eroded and taken away. And now Trump has given us Madame DeVos to help kill off an already wounded Education Department in the U.S.A.

[suffragette]

37. Not only deplorable, but delusional as well.

[lpbk2713]

38. The rethug propaganda machine has done a good job.

Some of these ignorant mouth breathers have bought
the whole package and keep coming back for more.

[WePurrsevere]

40. $100. per YEAR gain wiped out by Republican CUTS to...

low income programs for things like heating/cooling/power assistance, food, housing, Medicaid, etc.

"All that money...."? Gads! It might almost be funny seeing these suckers deal with the reality IF it didn't also affect millions of innocent people that didn't vote for Trump and other Republicans.

[workinclasszero]

41. The koch bros and Trump

must laugh their ample asses off over these working class stiffs that actually believe republicans are going to do one damn thing to help them in their life!

[kairos12]

42. Amazon and Shitler says let them eat cardboard.

[Solly Mack]

43. Wow.

That's beyond tragic.

That man shoots himself both literally and figuratively - and he keeps shooting himself.

[struggle4progress]

44. Self-shooting confederates are always the first I ask when I want good info on tax proposals!

[workinclasszero]

45. LOL

I just wish their militant stupidity did not effect me and my family.

[rockfordfile]

47. No kidding, it seems he could be a racist idiot on top of everything else

[rockfordfile]

46. The guy is a idiot. Amazon should do better screening for idiots.