GOP donors complain that GOP didn't even try to use tax-cuts as midterms-topic.

[DetlefK]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/22/tax-cuts-republicans-midterms-921903

The bill was pushed through Congress so quickly, and the debate was so circumscribed, that he says many voters never learned how the cuts affect them. Many have heard the law cut corporate taxes, but Winston says his polling indicates that only 35 percent are aware the law also cut individual tax rates at every income level.

“I have people in focus groups saying, ‘How come I never heard of this before?'” said Winston. “What didn’t happen here was people didn’t go out and, on a sustained basis, lay out what was in the bill.”

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The main way millions of taxpayers have seen the most direct impact of the law is through changes in their withholding that produces bumps in their paychecks. It’s a roughly $30 increase for the average person paid biweekly and earning between $50,000 and $75,000, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

Republicans believed voters would appreciate any increase, even if it wasn’t eye-popping, but polls show most didn’t even notice a change. Sixty-four percent said they have not seen an increase in take-home pay, according to the Gallup poll.

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It's all a long way from December, when jubilant Republicans expected their newly-passed legislation to carry them through the midterm elections. “If we can’t sell this to the American people, we ought to go into another line of work,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

[NCjack]

1. The donors should use their PACs to remind the voters. Opps -- that wont

work because Trump controls the GOP PACs.

[NastyRiffraff]

2. The big donors got a huge tax cut

So they naturally expect everybody to rejoice with them. Completely tone-deaf.

[peekaloo]

3. I've seen Democrats using it.

Some people will be in for a not so pleasant surprise come IRS season next year, too.

[Yavin4]

4. Probably because that $30 bump was eaten up by higher health insurance premiums

But that may just be me.

[zipplewrath]

5. The other half

It’s a roughly $30 increase for the average person paid biweekly and earning between $50,000 and $75,000,

And then there is the other half of the population, that makes less than $50K. And many do it with wildly varying incomes week to week So the $5 difference wasn't noticed.