{"content":[{"text":"“(I)nstead the deﬁcit is increasing considerably due to the tax cuts,” said ATF – mostly \n because corporate tax revenue dropped by about one-third, almost $100 billion year-over- \n year since the December 2017 law took eﬀect.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.051633,"width":0.794059,"height":0.051189}},{"text":"The GOP plan for checking the spiraling debt is by cutting social services for ordinary \n Americans – notably Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.120051,"width":0.794067,"height":0.03337199999999997}},{"text":"Increased \n workers.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.170651,"width":0.083141,"height":0.03337200000000001}},{"text":"corporate","bbox":{"left":0.196834,"top":0.170651,"width":0.08246799999999999,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"proﬁts","bbox":{"left":0.29008,"top":0.170651,"width":0.054423,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"went","bbox":{"left":0.35528,"top":0.170651,"width":0.04181400000000002,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"mostly","bbox":{"left":0.407875,"top":0.170651,"width":0.05726700000000001,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"to","bbox":{"left":0.475911,"top":0.170651,"width":0.017071000000000003,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"shareholders","bbox":{"left":0.503748,"top":0.170651,"width":0.11051500000000003,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"and","bbox":{"left":0.62504,"top":0.170651,"width":0.031981999999999955,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"corporate","bbox":{"left":0.667789,"top":0.170651,"width":0.08246799999999999,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"executives,","bbox":{"left":0.761035,"top":0.170651,"width":0.09730300000000003,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"not","bbox":{"left":0.869117,"top":0.170651,"width":0.027828999999999993,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"Trump lied saying corporate America would use the windfall tax breaks by giving the \n average US household a $4,000 pay raise, “shower(ing) workers with bonuses,” along with \n generating “massive investments.”","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.221252,"width":0.794103,"height":0.051188999999999985}},{"text":"A year later, “corporations are mostly using their actual and anticipated tax cuts and their \n rising proﬁts to buy back their own stock, which principally further enriches wealthy \n shareholders and top corporate executives,” ATF explained.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.289669,"width":0.793959,"height":0.051188999999999985}},{"text":"According to its database, “$853 billion in share repurchases” were announced in 2018 – \n “120 times more” than workers got in pay increases last year, a slim “$7.1 billion” for the \n entire 128.5 million US workforce – about $55 per worker if my math is right.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.358087,"width":0.7941720000000001,"height":0.051188999999999985}},{"text":"Contrary to Trump’s promise, “worker wages are getting no boost from the tax cuts,” said \n ATF. “(O)nly 4.4%” of them received a monetary beneﬁt ascribed to the measure.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.426504,"width":0.793953,"height":0.03337200000000001}},{"text":"Year-over-year-through December, inﬂation-adjusted “average real hourly wages for all \n workers rose just 0.8%, while average weekly wages actually fell, because employees were \n working fewer hours,” ATF explained, adding:","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.477104,"width":0.7940450000000001,"height":0.05118999999999996}},{"text":"“Special interests are the GOP tax law’s big winners” – what was predicted before the law \n was enacted at yearend 2017.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.545522,"width":0.7938990000000001,"height":0.03337200000000007}},{"text":"Polls show most Americans know they were scammed. Beneﬁts gotten are too meager to \n matter, and it gets worse. Millions of US workers expecting tax refunds either aren’t getting \n them or will receive much less than they anticipated.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.596122,"width":0.7939769999999999,"height":0.05118999999999996}},{"text":"Last week, the IRS said around 30 million US taxpayers will owe the agency money, three \n million more than before the GOP tax cut.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.66454,"width":0.7940740000000001,"height":0.03337199999999996}},{"text":"Average refunds going out are down 8.4% year-over-year so far. The American Institute of \n CPAs vice president Edward Karl said “(t)here are going to be a lot of unhappy people over \n the next month. Taxpayers want a large refund.” Millions will be sorely disappointed.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.71514,"width":0.7941290000000001,"height":0.05118900000000004}},{"text":"Last April, Trump falsely said not only will Americans “save a lot of money,” but the ﬁling \n process will be simpliﬁed on “one page, one card,” adding:","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.783558,"width":0.7940710000000001,"height":0.03337199999999996}},{"text":"“You’ll have a nice, simple form next year. This will be the last year (under the old system). \n So take pictures of it and enjoy it. This is the last time you’ll have to ﬁle a very complex and \n big tax form. It will be much easier starting next April.”","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.834158,"width":0.794073,"height":0.05118900000000004}},{"text":"Tax code changes made things more complicated, along with ordinary Americans \n beneﬁtting little from the great GOP tax cut heist.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.902576,"width":0.7941300000000001,"height":0.03337199999999996}},{"text":"| 2","bbox":{"left":0.905167,"top":0.951943,"width":0.02340999999999993,"height":0.01659200000000005}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}