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    Did Steve Mnuchin and Louise Linton really 'give more to the economy' than they took? The record says no

    by By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Aug 23, 2017 5 minutes

    Louise Linton, the actress-model-whatever wife of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, already has apologized for a certain nasty Instagram post aimed at a citizen who criticized her for bragging about her designer wardrobe during an official trip with her husband.

    We're not as interested in the controversy over Linton's Instagram posts per se, one of which was a childish outburst directed at Jenni Miller, an Oregon woman who had tagged Linton's original post as "#deplorable." We're more interested in Linton's comments about the economic contributions she and her husband make.

    "Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband?" Linton asked Miller. "Either as an individual earner in taxes OR in self sacrifice to your country? ... Pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot

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