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Toon to send to the trumpers on Taxes (Original Post) n2doc Nov 2017 OP
Kick dalton99a Nov 2017 #1
Not anymore you don't Slappy! underpants Nov 2017 #2
Trump's Middle Class Tax Hike lagomorph777 Nov 2017 #3
The teacher one is what gets me gratuitous Nov 2017 #4
Great cartoon Gothmog Nov 2017 #5

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4. The teacher one is what gets me
Fri Nov 10, 2017, 01:00 PM
Nov 2017

Teachers, underpaid and working in underfunded schools, often resort to buying supplies for their students and classrooms out of their own pocket. On average, it's several hundred dollars a year, with a positive correlation between the poverty of a district and the amount of teacher outlay (that is, the poorer the school the more supplies teachers buy). Even though the income deduction is capped (I think it's at a paltry $250, or the price of a fancy business dinner or two), and to get it, the teacher has to itemize deductions, Republicans want to do away with it entirely, while continuing to cut school funding.

Plain and simple, it's bullshit. And if you're a Republican voter who thinks this is just fine so that wealthy people can get another tax break to sop up more money they don't need and can't spend, then there's something wrong with the way your brain works.

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