{"id":81664,"date":"2017-08-22T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81664"},"modified":"2017-08-22T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:08:43","slug":"louise-linton-wife-of-treasury-secretary-brags-about-how-much-she-pays-in-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81664","title":{"rendered":"Louise Linton, wife of Treasury secretary, brags about how much she pays in taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY ROBIN EBERHARDT<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=thehill2300_nws_pol_sec&amp;videoId=32868493\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Actress Louise Linton, and new wife of Treasury Secretary\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/steven-mnuchin\" data-nid=\"344978\">Steven Mnuchin<\/a><\/span>, lashed out at an Instagram user Monday night, bragging about how much she pays in taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Scottish actress posted a photo on Instagram showing her leaving a government plane while on a trip to Kentucky with Mnuchin and Senate Majority Leader\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/mitch-mcconnell\" data-nid=\"188280\">Mitch McConnell<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-Ky.). In the post, she included hashtags for the expensive brands she was wearing, such as #rolandmouret, #hermesscarf, #tomford and #valentino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An Instagram user accused her of being \u201cdeplorable\u201d and mocked her, saying that she is \u201cglad we could pay for your little getaway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAw!!! Did you think this was a personal trip?! Adorable!&#8221; Linton wrote. &#8220;Do you think the US govt paid for our honeymoon or personal travel?! Lololol. Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband? Either as an individual earner in taxes OR in self sacrifice to your country?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Linton went on to comment that the user&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;life looks cute&#8221; and that she is &#8220;adorably out of touch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you\u2019d be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours,&#8221; Linton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Instagram user, Jenni Miller,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/22\/us\/politics\/mnuchin-louise-linton-treasury-instagram.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\">said<\/a>\u00a0in an interview with The New York Times that she was shocked at Linton&#8217;s comments, adding that they were\u00a0&#8220;wholly inappropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt seems like she\u2019s been in public life for a long time,\u201d she said. \u201cIt just seemed wholly inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Miller added that she would have joked\u00a0about Marie Antoinette, given the actress&#8217;s post about her luxury goods while visiting a state with a high poverty rate on a government trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI think my post was just five or six words, and she had to go on basically a rant about it to make herself look more important and look smarter, better, richer \u2014 all those things,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Linton faced backlash on Twitter for her comments:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/politicangst\/status\/899806780187738113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-know%2F347436-louise-linton-brags-about-how-much-she-pays-in-taxes-on-instagram<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Cernovich\/status\/899828247743025152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-know%2F347436-louise-linton-brags-about-how-much-she-pays-in-taxes-on-instagram<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error\" data-lang=\"en\" data-twitter-extracted-i1503423049877627657=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">GOP or Democrat, people in this country are suffering. It&#8217;s wrong for Louise Linton to mock this mother of 3 for having less money than her:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/RUOjA7dC4b\">pic.twitter.com\/RUOjA7dC4b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KaivanShroff\/status\/899856764937654272\">August 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Steve Mnuchin\u2019s wife, Louise Linton, has a \u2018let them eat cake\u2019 moment on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WvUJQraLcv\">https:\/\/t.co\/WvUJQraLcv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/899834323007918080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/347436-louise-linton-brags-about-how-much-she-pays-in-taxes-on-instagram\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/347436-louise-linton-brags-about-how-much-she-pays-in-taxes-on-instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}