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#GOPTaxBillScam

I had some fun with the trending hashtag #GOPTaxBillScam on Twitter yesterday. Here are my posts, ordered from the most popular to the least popular (all my tweets can be seen here - https://twitter.com/CraigRozniecki):

1) So what did you accomplish this year?
GOP: "We passed a bill which only 33% of people support, that aids the 1% who don't need help, strips healthcare from those who need it most, and raises the deficit, bigly. If that's not winning, we don't know what is!"
#GOPTaxBillScam
261 Likes, 162 Retweets

2) GOP: "This Christmas, we ask the middle- and lower-classes to wait under the kitchen table at dinner. Don't worry. Whether or not we give you warm food or sufficient amounts, we'll feed you eventually. We're bound to drop something here or there, right? Merry Christmas!"
#GOPTaxBillScam
104 Likes, 48 Retweets

3) GOP: "Trickle-down economics helped increase the pay gap to the widest its been since the Great Depression, which led to the Great Recession. So yeah, let's do that again. It's common sense!"
#GOPTaxBillScam
62 Likes, 38 Retweets

4) The media needs to cut it out with labeling the tax bill as a win for Trump, as a win for 1% is a loss for 99%, and unless you majored in mathematics at Trump University, 99 > 1.
#GOPTaxBillScam
50 Likes, 18 Retweets

5) Trump: "Signing something that nobody likes is my biggest achievement, folks. You people might not like me now and might not like this bill, but because of this bill you don't like, you'll like me more, because, you know, logic."
#GOPTaxBillScam #Snark
30 Likes, 24 Retweets

6) Trickle-down economics: To attempt to make hand-me-down clothes appealing, promise them around December 25th of every year, and deliver coal instead.
#GOPTaxBillScam
41 Likes, 10 Retweets

7) GOP: "We may already own more cars than you and really only need one, but we're going to give ourselves a couple more. This isn't about us; it's about you. We'll let you take the things out every now and again, even though we'll always be driving them."
#GOPTaxBillScam
33 Likes, 13 Retweets

8) GOP meeting: "Let's give the people a few extra bucks next year to try and prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress in the midterms. Then years down the line, when people have forgotten who passed the bill, it'll hurt many families big league."
#GOPTaxBillScam
18 Likes, 10 Retweets

9) Trump: "Even the dossier says trickle-down works! I'm not admitting nothin'; I'm just sayin' ...and yes, it's true, like big league!"
#GOPTaxBillScam #Snark #GoldenShowers
15 Likes, 4 Retweets

Totals: 614 Likes, 327 Retweets (Averages of 68.2 Likes, 36.3 Retweets)

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