Most of the decade, millions of families and businesses thrived, because of the Bush tax cuts.

[Kablooie]

How did Bush's cuts affect you?

For most of the decade, millions of families and businesses thrived, at least in part because of the lower burden provided by the tax cuts.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2010-12-05-1ataxcuts_N.htm

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This is a most delightful article in USA Today with lots of pictures of smiling people and children who are just pleased as punch with the Bush tax cuts.
Happy, cheery and warm huggy type phrases designed to make you proud to be a Republican.


I want to vomit on my screen except that it costs too much.

[mikekohr]

1. You Mean The No-Growth Jobs Decade?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mHSyEv8vBt4/S6Zvl-nui8I/AAAAAAAAACQ/3j0wUSj78mk/s640/Job+growth+graph.jpg?

http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/job-growth.html

?

http://cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm

The two biggest promises of "Trickle Down Economics" are it's greatest failings. Proponents of "Trickle Down Economics” claim that tax cuts, skewed to the rich, will create jobs and increase tax revenues. The graph above disproves the latter claim. Job creation plummets under "Trickle Down Economics (see http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/job-growth.html )and nine of the last ten recessions have occurred under Republican leadership (see http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/history-of-recessions.html ).

Two things are certain to grow when a Republican is in the White House, unemployment and the National Debt.


By contrast, "Bubble Up" economnic priciples practiced by Democratic Administrations put people to work, rev up the economy, and balance the Nation's ledger books. Every time. No exceptions.

[dkf]

4. Well then cut them all since they were so bad for the economy.

[AndyTiedye]

2. At Least With a Print Edition of Something Like That You Could Use it in the Cat Box

Cat shit would be an improvement on most of what USA Today prints.

[Skittles]

3. mainstream propaganda

:puke:

[Hannah Bell]

5. how can people buy into this crap? the bush 2 era was shit economically.

[HughBeaumont]

6. And this, folks, is the chief reason why we're NEVER going to rise against the "Betters".

Too many delusional people thinking they're going to be the next Bill Gates because papers like this tell them so. Reality paints a far more sobering picture . . . if only the country's low info sect could stop "la la la la"-ing, they'd get it. Or not.

[democracy1st]

8. great work thanks Hugh!

[tularetom]

7. Actually the bush tax cuts created millions of jobs

In China.

[TorchTheWitch]

9. oh BARF

Do they really believe that people are that gullible? That they didn't actually LIVE through those horrible years and know first hand how shitty economically they were?

The Soviets didn't believe their propaganda nonsense either.

[Turbineguy]

10. The Bush Tax cuts

covered what was really going on.

[BlueCheese]

11. What a rotten article.

It's not as bad as I thought--the line mentioned above is fairly deep down in the article--but awful nonetheless.

Strangely, even more millions of families and businesses thrived for most of the previous decade, without the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush tax cuts.

This issue is so depressing. The Democrats will never see an easier opportunity to simultaneously stand up for their core principles and strike a big political win, and they're about to blow it.

[Vinca]

12. During that decade our business income reached an all time low.

In 2004 we had to drop health insurance because we couldn't afford it anymore and the last couple of years we hung on by a thread. This year, for the first time in a long time, we seem to be seeing a little bit of a turn around.

[Greyhound]

13. K&(invisible)R.

More of that "left wing librul media" crap, I see.
:kick: & R

Now for bonus points; Why would a "left wing librul" BBS unrec this post while all of the replies are positive?

[sinkingfeeling]

14. What decade? There was zero job growth under GW Bush. No increase in

income for most of the country while gasoline and health care costs went into space!