9 Apocalyptic Lies Fed To Americans About The Republican Tax Bill

Monday is the first Tax Day under the new Republican tax bill passed in December 2017, and the results are not what Democrats and their media apparatus predicted. Many Americans are discovering that they are not only alive and well, but indeed paying less taxes.

As Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley pointed out in The New York Times, there is a disparity between what Americans thought they would be paying the IRS this year, and what they actually paid. This myth, “appears to flow from a sustained — and misleading — effort by liberal opponents of the law to brand it as a broad middle-class tax increase.”

What falsities did these liberal opponents tell the American people would happen pending the passing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act? Here are a few of the most outrageous examples of fear-mongering.

1. 10,000 People Will Be Killed Every Year (Economist and former Treasury secretary Larry Summers)

2. The Tax Bill Is ‘Akin To Rape’(Bruce Bartlett, a writer and former Treasury official)

3. ‘Armageddon’ and the Worst Legislation Ever Considered By Congress (Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi)

4. Grad Students Will Have to Quit Doctorate Programs

5. America Is Dead (according to Kurt Eichenwald)

6. Republicans Want to Kick the Poor, Middle Class In the Face (Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell)

7. Most People Are Getting Bigger Paychecks. Here’s Why That’s Bad (Rick Newman at Yahoo Finance)

8. New Yorkers Allege All Americans Will Suffer (protesters staged a “die-in” on Wall Street)

9. An Endless, Global Recession (New York Times columnist Paul Krugman)

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