Donald Trump and Republicans keep bragging about companies that have supposedly given their workers bonuses or raises because of the recently passed tax overhaul, but a new poll shows that Americans know the score. Those bonuses and raises have way too many asterisks attached—whether they came about through worker organizing, or don’t amount to much, or are paired with layoffs, or were planned before the tax scam passed. And while Republicans have been able to point to a few high-profile, if questionable, cases, there’s no sign that the U.S. employment and wages situation has suddenly improved. That all may be why just two percent of people said in the new Reuters/Ipsos poll that they were getting a raise or bonus because of the Republican tax law.
Even beyond that dull thud of a polling result on a key Republican brag point, though, the tax scam is not shaping up to be the 2018 selling point Republicans have claimed it as:
About 58 percent of U.S. adults surveyed said that large U.S. corporations or wealthy Americans stand to benefit most from the tax legislation. Just 13 percent said the middle class will benefit the most, the poll showed. [...]
A quarter of those surveyed, including more than half of Republicans, said they were more interested in voting for Republicans because of the law. Just 8 percent of Democrats and 16 percent of independents said the same.
About a third of respondents, including 62 percent of Democrats, said they were more interested in supporting Democrats due to the tax legislation; just 9 percent of Republicans and 19 percent of independents.
This was supposed to be the Republican win that turned it all around and took them out of the wilderness of their failure-packed 2017. Doesn’t look like that’s happening.
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