"Nonpartisan Tax Report Withdrawn After G.O.P. Protest"

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Nonpartisan Tax Report Withdrawn After G.O.P. Protest

By JONATHAN WEISMAN at the NYTimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/business/questions-raised-on-withdrawal-of-congressional-research-services-report-on-tax-rates.html?hp&_r=2&

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WASHINGTON — The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of conservative economic theory, after Senate Republicans raised concerns about the paper’s findings and wording.

The decision, made in late September against the advice of the agency’s economic team leadership, drew almost no notice at the time. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, cited the study a week and a half after it was withdrawn in a speech on tax policy at the National Press Club.

But it could actually draw new attention to the report, which questions the premise that lowering the top marginal tax rate stimulates economic growth and job creation.

“This has hues of a banana republic,” Mr. Schumer said. “They didn’t like a report, and instead of rebutting it, they had them take it down.”

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1. The nonpartisan report

didn't support the GOPs pathological trickle down delusion so they suppressed it. Damn. we are screwed if we can't dislodge these ideologues.

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2. "...no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth,

a central tenet of conservative economic theory."

In other words, "trickle-down economics" is a complete fucking lie.

But when Republicans encounter facts they don't like, they just ignore them.