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Not quite as big as the news that the modest increase in pay is going to kill them.

 

At least they'll have Costco.

 

"Um, yeah, can I get an associate to get that six pack of coffins down from the top shelf?"

 

I wonder what @cranberry thinks of this.

 

I know, like who'd depict someone wearing tube socks!?

 

Offset by what kind of decrease in public services?

 

What do you think will be the final death toll?

 

Now this sounds a lot like sneering to me.

 

Of course it's going to be smaller in absolute terms. (Well, it's probably smaller in percentage terms as well.) But this really smacked of "$1.50 for you, $500,000 for him. See how generous we are?"

I mean, if it wasn't a bad look, he wouldn't have deleted it.

 

I didn't really take it in the "see how generous we are" mode, so ... I thought he was actually trying to say that even though it's small for some, it's not trivial to them.

As re: the "smaller in percentage terms" ... no, not really. Here's a table from the Joint Committee on Taxation re: the distributional effects ...