Someone just said in a press conference that the proposed 2-month 2% payroll tax holiday would save an average family earning $50,000 per year about $1,000.
Hmmm. Annualizing a 2 month program. Clever arithmetic.
Perhaps, sensing that’s misleading, he went on to clarify: that works out to about $40 per week.
Hmmm.
Let’s do the math: $40 times 52 weeks = #2,080 … that can’t be right.
$1,000 divided by 52 weeks is less than $20.
Huh?
I hate to get petty, but if the “someone” had been Rick Perry, the gaffe woulda made headlines.
If it had been Joe Biden, everybody would have just shook their heads and said “again?”.
But, it was Barack Obama, so it’ll get ignored by the press … but not by the Homa Files.
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