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With Congressional Republicans and President Trump set to score a massive win before Christmas with their tax reform bill, Democrats and their liberal media lapdogs were letting loose with their smear and fear campaign. But During HLN’s Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp called out California Democrat Ted Lieu for trying to recklessly scare voters into thinking the bill was going to hurt them when, in fact, the opposite was true.
After Cupp introduced Congressman Lieu as someone who had called the sweeping tax bill a “scam,” he claimed Democrats weren’t against tax reform but were “opposed to stupid tax reform. And this is a scam because it's going to raise taxes on millions of middle-class families to prove really large tax breaks for the super-rich…”
But Cupp swiftly shot down the Congressman’s nonsense by pointing out that “the facts are, according to the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation, middle-income households between 20,000 a year and 100,000 a year are going to get $61 billion in tax cuts in 2019.”
“And another estimate says that families making the median income will get a tax cut of over 2,000 dollars next year,” she added before quipping: “Is the Joint Committee on Taxation part of the scam?”
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