How is the Myth "Tax Cuts for the Rich create jobs " still alive

FreakinDJ

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Sun Sep-26-10 06:19 PM
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How is the Myth "Tax Cuts for the Rich create jobs " still alive

Edited on Sun Sep-26-10 06:20 PM by FreakinDJ

I mean even for the lower IQ demographics of the voting populace. What logic could they possibly implore to sell that one to the millions of homeless unemployed Americans out there.

Even so - hasn't the last 30 years of lowering standards of living and diminished buying power of the working class wages been a Blinding White Hot Example of WHY THAT DOES NOT WORK

I mean when do you say to yourself "Maybe that doesn't work so well" - when you lose your pension/savings, When you are unemployed for exceeding long terms of time and the only job you can find is for a fraction of your former wages, or when they come take your house.

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AzNick

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Sun Sep-26-10 06:20 PM
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1. Misinformation and the "less cover each side equally"

This is why global warming is still debated.

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phantom power

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Sun Sep-26-10 06:40 PM
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2. You really have to connect the dots for people.

And I don't mean just low-info voters. If I understand why it doesn't work, it's because I've read various explainations about why it doesn't work, and so when I look around me, I have a frame for understanding what I'm seeing.

This is what the GOP is super super good at. They never stop broadcasting their frames. In fact, it appears that now Dem politicians are also under the influence of the GOP framings.

Who is there to push back?

:shrug:

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benddem

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Sun Sep-26-10 06:53 PM
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3. same way all

republican memes stay alive...they are repeated and repeated till the sheeple in the media and the low info voters believe it.

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sendero

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Sun Sep-26-10 06:56 PM
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4. Exactly...

.. with a little help from the MSM.

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unblock

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Sun Sep-26-10 07:22 PM
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5. memes aren't meant to convey truth. on the contrary, they're memes because they convey lies!

republicans can hardly get out there and say, "we want tax cuts for the rich because the super-rich are greedy bastards who want far more than their fair share no matter the expense to the government and the economy, and they kick back a portion of anything we get for them in the form of that legalized bribery known as campaign contributions"

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niceypoo

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Sun Sep-26-10 07:24 PM
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6. It needs to be seriously investigated by the CBO and widely reported

One more round of tax cuts for the rich and the economy will completely collapse.

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COLGATE4

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Sun Sep-26-10 07:36 PM
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7. Because it's repeated 24/7 on every RW Echo chamber on

AM Radio and through Fux TV.

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Orsino

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Sun Sep-26-10 07:41 PM
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8. They used their tax cuts to buy the MSM that tells us so.

Easy enough.

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Urban Prairie

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Sun Sep-26-10 07:48 PM
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9. Maybe most teabaggers

were serfs during the middle ages in a previous life, and they like having Lords and Ladies (today's wealthy corporate capitalists) as well as royalty/monarchy in the form of GOP leadership to rule over them.

:shrug:

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southmost

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Sun Sep-26-10 11:40 PM
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10. Also, I hate the myth about the efficiency of the private sector

how the bailed out private sector claim efficiency,

all they do is hide the cost, deliver sh*tty service, and stick it to the public

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