Like I said, PROVE it motherfucker.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

"Robert Reich's 7 biggest lies about the economy."
Title fixed.

"Robert Reich's 7 biggest lies about the economy."

Title fixed.

>> ^bobknight33:

Lies


Prove it then motherfucker. With data and facts*. Not rhetoric.


*[meaning, actual events & quantities that happened in this reality. Not some random figure you read in an Ann Coulter article]

The more detailed version came around last month. </shameless>

>> ^volumptuous:

"Neolibs will love this video because it speaks to them viscerally to thoth thwarteth of thine highest willfull, money" - Winstonfeld Pennypacker
"COINS!! TAXES ARE THE SAME AS RACIAL SEGREGATION!" - Blankfist
"Argle bargle flargle gargle" - Quantummushroom


That's unusually coherent for QM.

>> ^bobknight33:

Lies


You know what?

*lies

Congratulations! Your comment has just received enough votes from the community to earn you 1 Power Point. Thank you for your quality contribution to VideoSift.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Does that make it a triple promote? We are pushing the boundaries of the sift-time continuum.


You're blowing my mind, man.

Do we get to rub wieners now?

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I knew it! You're into me ;

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*quality *doublepromote

Meow!

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I knew it! You're into me

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*quality *doublepromote

"Neolibs will love this video because it speaks to them viscerally to thoth thwarteth of thine highest willfull, money" - Winstonfeld Pennypacker

"COINS!! TAXES ARE THE SAME AS RACIAL SEGREGATION!" - Blankfist

"Argle bargle flargle gargle" - Quantummushroom

'preciated, mate!

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*quality

Much obliged, mate!

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Talking about the morality of various tax codes with someone who disagrees is nonsense. If you've been posting on the internet for years and haven't figured out that other people are quite attached to moral values that are incompatible with your own, then taxes are the least of your problems.

I'd be curious to find out where WP gets his talking points, especially since so many of them are refutable with official government data and a pocket calculator. Actually I skipped the calculator, so forgive my rounding errors:

People in the top bracket pay 38% of the income tax. Income taxes are 33% of revenues. Revenues are around $4.4 tr. So they pay about 500 billion a year.

The top tax bracket is 35%. If as WP claims we raised that to 100% We would be roughly tripling the income from them. Even only doubling it is still an extra 500 billion a year or 5 trillion over a decade, assuming the income of the rich stays steady (which it never does, rich people are much better at increasing their income than the middle class).

Both sides have hired legions of economists to support their viewpoints. I'm sure there's a right wing economist who could explain what's wrong with my arithmetic and make me look dumb (which I am, relatively), though I wonder how the author of that $2trillion figure would do if a liberal economist like Paul Krugman or Robert Reich were in the room while he made his arguments.

For our purposes, we should accept that parroting the talking points bought and paid for by your favorite political movement will not convince anyone.