Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Top 10 Lies About the Bush Tax Cuts

















Top 10 Lies About the Bush Tax Cuts

Here, then, are 10 Republican Lies about the Bush tax cuts:

    * Lie #1: Democrats Plan Across the Board Tax Hikes on January 1st
    * Lie #2: Democrats Want a $3.8 Trillion Tax Increase
    * Lie #3: Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves
    * Lie #4: The Bush Tax Cuts Didn't Add to the Deficit
    * Lie #5: Expiring High Income Tax Cuts Will Hurt Small Business
    * Lie #6: The Estate Tax Devastates Small Businesses and Family Farms
    * Lie #7: The Bush Tax Cuts Helped All Americans
    * Lie #8. Extending Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy is the Best Way to Stimulate the Economy
    * Lie #9. Bush Tax Cuts Produced 52 Straight Months of Job Growth
    * Lie #10: The Rich Pay Too Much in Taxes Already

Details, documentation and charts at the link. You don't have to be an economics expert to see how keeping Bush tax cuts for the wealthy have been and would continue to be a destructive force on the economic well being of the average American.

Colorado Republican Senatorial candidate Ken Buck joins the crazy Sharon Angle of Nevada in thinking the government should force rape and incest victims to carry their pregnancies to term.