Despite President Trump's promise of cuts, the federal government has spent about $220 billion more in his first 100 days than the same time period last year.
Well it’s not sarcastic, it’s factually correct. The tariffs are a tax on us that goes to the government. Whether that’s bad or not isn’t really embedded into your text. So it becomes a mirror for the reader.
If you talked to a couple and they told you they spend $20,000 per year eating out, you might be shocked. If you know or find out that they are a pair of married plastic surgeons, you might think that’s high but whatever it’s a couple of percent of their income.
Well it’s not sarcastic, it’s factually correct. The tariffs are a tax on us that goes to the government. Whether that’s bad or not isn’t really embedded into your text. So it becomes a mirror for the reader.
The sarcasm part would be that the tax makes it ok that the spending is high.
If you talked to a couple and they told you they spend $20,000 per year eating out, you might be shocked. If you know or find out that they are a pair of married plastic surgeons, you might think that’s high but whatever it’s a couple of percent of their income.