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Are Oklahoma, Kansas and Louisiana proof that Republican tax policies don't work?

To be fair to Republicans, they are openly anti-science now. It isn't surprising that they'd believe in magic.
 
Spartacus FPV said:
Who has ever claimed this? What an obvious straw man in the 1st line.
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Are you kidding me? Republican BOILERPLATE, my friend:
"Tax cuts make everything better."
They do nothing but talk about freedom, and how life is better with tax cuts for the wealthy, and about how wealthy people drop more crumbs if you keep giving them bigger meals.

Trickle down economics is the biggest forty year failure in US history.
Republicans spend BILLIONS to fund think tanks to prop up this failed myth and billions to field candidates who will preach this evangel. And now they even have their own TV networks (Fox News Channel and Sinclair Broadcast Group) to propagate the myths to low information voters.

They resort to gerrymandering to keep elections secure, Citizens United to erase "one man, one vote" and they gut the Voting Rights Act to ensure that white districts have access while minorities have limited access.

They screech about nonexistent voter fraud and then get caught committing it themselves, and in the capper of them all, they're now threatening to impeach Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who said that they had to redraw PA voting districts and get rid of their gerrymanders.

And all to prop up the "tax cuts for the wealthy and trickle down economics model".
 
Sampson Simpson said:
Now we are looking at another Republican led crash in the economy. Probably just how the rich want it, then they can buy up all these things for cheap, and then when things recover sell it for a nice profit, and repeat
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That is how the model has ALWAYS worked!
Wealthy Republicans PRAY for crashes in the economy.
They vacuum up homes, businesses and resources at fire sale prices, then resell these foreclosed goods to the rubes all over again next cycle.
 
DickBanks said:
Will Rogers coined the phrase to criticize the economic policies of Herbert Hoover during the Depression. Didn't work then, won't work now. Why? The greed of the rich. "Let 'em eat cake."
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"This election was lost four and five and six years ago not this year. They didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickled down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot.
But he didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands. They saved the big banks but the little ones went up the flue."
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And Here’s How It All Happened (1932), as published in the Tulsa Daily World, 5 December 1932.
 
Sampson Simpson said:
Ah yes, that old deflection, when can't argue any of the points made, just make this stupid comment and ignore rest.

Why do you people think deflection is a good argument?
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Its called identification of a straw man, pointing out a fallacy. Its not a deflection to point out that no one hold the position you're characaturing them with. No one resembles your straw man, we are not required to defend positions we do not hold.

Dickbanks claimed people "cite" Reaganomics, no one does this.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
And Here’s How It All Happened (1932), as published in the Tulsa Daily World, 5 December 1932.
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Almost 100 years later and nothing has changed. Voters refuse to get informed.

Republicans have resorted to bribing voters with tiny tax cuts for regular folk and massive cuts for the rich and corporations. The uninformed voter gets excited about a few extra dollars and doesn't see the massive tidal wave of boom and bust recession coming his way.
 
Spartacus FPV said:
When you're wrong in your first line, its not hard. Its also not hard to point out obvious hyperbole that serves no one any good in a serious debate.
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Originally Posted by SonOfDaedalus

"So, slashing taxes doesn't just magically solve all problems? Who could have predicted that?"

Slashing taxes on the wealthy is PRECISELY what Kansas, and all the other Ayn Rand worshipping states have been doing. And it is Republican boilerplate.
Your desperate effort at earning a "BAZINGA" amounts to nothing in face of the facts, but by all means please proceed with the distractions.
The rest of us intend to continue discussing the issue while you proclaim loudly from your corner.

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Spartacus FPV said:
Please quote ANYONE here having cited Reagonomics
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Nobody needs to have done because anyone honestly trying to discuss the issue knows what was said and why it was said.

What you are doing is posting practiced obtuseness. You know perfectly well that the same swill that was said in support of the recent tax cuts was said in support of Bush's tax cuts, and was said in Reagan's tax cuts before. It's all Reaganomics, aka, supply-side tax policy.

And just like you knew that (despite pretending otherwise), you knew perfectly well that when the OP said "So, slashing taxes doesn't just magically solve all problems? Who could have predicted that? ", he meant simply that it doesn't work the way the GOP keeps saying it works. GDP does not grow enough such that revenues equals or exceed pre-cut revenues, as the people who try to argue that the cuts are good for us all inevitably say.



You're playing a silly and boring game.
 
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