Right-wing idiocy

[teddywolf]

Once again, the New York Times has handed over money to a right-wing columnist who slices and dices his economic facts, then presents the hacked-up mess as a whole pie. Or a whole philosophy.

The man's a menace. He hasn't even looked at the tax policies in place during each time period where he compares growth. They were, in short, highest on the wealthy during the high-growth times and low during the low-groth times. And he says that for the economy to grow... we need to keep our tax rates on the wealthy at the same low rates that we've had for nearly a dozen years now, so they can start making the jobs they haven't been making over the last nearly dozen years.

NYTimes, pay me to write for you!

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[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

I will welcome any help I can get.

bikergeek also had a point on the cherry-picking of particular countries. Saying that Spain and Greece are the biggest European welfare states (and also the ones that are failing) completely ignores the Scandinavian states, France, England, all of whom have plenty of welfare (or even more) and all of which are in better shape.

[herince-emyn.livejournal.com]

Dad says to try this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/site/editorial/op-ed/op-ed.html