Twitter users roast Paul Ryan after he tweets about a woman earning $1.50 more per week because of the GOP tax law

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  People on Twitter slammed House Speaker Paul Ryan
  Saturday after he tweeted about a public high school secretary
  who saw a $1.50 increase in her weekly paycheck thanks to the
  recently implemented GOP tax overhaul.
  


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  Ryan's tweet elicited outrage, mostly from those on the
  left.
  


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  Critics of the Republican tax law say it favors the
  wealthy. Its supporters say it will benefit all Americans, as
  evidenced by the bump in pay for most middle class
  workers.
  

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House Speaker Paul Ryan was criticized Saturday for insinuating
that a Pennsylvania woman who is now receiving $1.50 additional
pay per week is proof that the GOP tax law is succeeding.

In a tweet, Ryan linked to an Associated Press article detailing a
handful of Americans who are enjoying bigger paychecks thanks to
the Republican tax law that went into effect January 1. President
Donald Trump signed the sweeping changes into law in
December.

While the AP cited four examples of middle class workers who
recently received increases in their paychecks, Ryan chose to
home in on Julia Ketchum, a public high school secretary in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who said she was pleasantly surprised
that she would now be taking home $1.50 more per week.

She said she would use the additional weekly earnings to cover
the cost of her yearly Costco membership.

Users on Twitter — mostly left-leaning individuals — didn't take
too kindly to Ryan's tweet, which has since been deleted.

I don't know that this is something to tout. A check for $1,000 is a big deal for many people...I understand why elected officials promote that. But $1.50 a week shouldn't be put up as an example. pic.twitter.com/YeF0yjGKxM

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) February 3, 2018

That tweet about the $1.50 a week is not a PR mistake. It is really what they think.

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) February 3, 2018

You gave $1.5 TRILLION to the richest people on the planet, and you’re using an anecdote about someone making an extra 21 cents a day to argue it was good for the rest of us? Hahahahahaha https://t.co/FoFk4Thupv

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) February 3, 2018

Some users also noted the irony in Ryan touting a worker making
$1.50 more per week after criticizing House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi for describing the benefits most
workers will receive as "crumbs."

"Yeah, I’m sad and surprised she said that," Ryan said last month on C-Span. "To
somebody working at Walmart at the starting wage, who just went
from $9 an hour to $11 an hour–I don’t think that’s crumbs. To a
person working paycheck-to-paycheck [who] just got a $1,000
bonus–that’s not crumbs."

Paul Ryan: A secretary is saving $1.50 a week from the tax bill.

Also Paul Ryan: These aren’t crumbs.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) February 3, 2018

The “crumbs” line from Pelosi and other Dems is not good, and $1000 can mean a lot to some families even when it seems like crumbs to others. But with how much this bill is costing, I don’t think Ryan touting someone getting $78 a year is a good way to sell this either.

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) February 3, 2018

Because of the new tax law, the Internal Revenue Service released
new guidelines on how much
employers should withhold for taxes from employee's paychecks.
Those guidelines were released on January 11, meaning the second
half of January was the first time many businesses used the
guidelines.

But as paychecks begin to roll out in February, many employees
will see their take-home pay increase as their tax bill shrinks.

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