$1.50

The Democrats
2 min readFeb 5, 2018

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One dollar and fifty cents. That’s the tax cut for one person Paul Ryan celebrated this weekend. His now-deleted tweet also highlighted the bait-and-switch of the Republican strategy to highlight tiny tax cuts for workers, while giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy and big corporations.

Here are a few numbers that might leave Paul Ryan “pleasantly surprised:”

$60 — Annual cost of a Costco membership.

$19,000 — Estimated tax cut Paul Ryan receives from the Trump tax.

$500,000 — A single contribution Paul Ryan got from the Koch brothers after passing the Trump tax.

$3.1 billion — Profit Chevron got from the Trump tax.

$6 billion — A gift Exxon gets from the Trump tax.

$11 billion — Amount Pfizer gained from the Trump tax.

$17 billion — Nearly the total amount Verizon saves due to the Trump tax.

$20 billion — Amount AT&T has already profited from the Trump tax.

$47 billion — Savings Apple could reap from the Trump tax.

$60 billion — Amount Citigroup plans to pay out to their shareholders.

$190 billion — The boost the oil industry got from the Trump tax.

$1.5 trillion — Total cost of the Trump tax, with the top 1% getting more than 80% of the benefits over the next decade.

Priceless — Paul Ryan having to delete a tweet that reveals the truth about the Trump tax, after being ridiculed for being out-of-touch.

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