NYTimes: "Springtime for Hitler" Paul Krugman's column

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NYTimes: "Springtime for Hitler" Paul Krugman's column OCT 2002

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New York Times' Paul Krugman OP/Ed column points out what
the rest of the world has been saying all along - George W Bush's
presidency is a complete lie, just like Hitler kept repeating the lie.



quote:

"You see, some folks must be under the impression that as long as something is repeated often enough, it will become true. That was how George W. Bush got to the top."


Springtime for Hitler
By PAUL KRUGMAN

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As far as I know, in the past it wasn't considered appropriate for the occupant of the White House to declare that members of the opposition party weren't interested in the nation's security. And it certainly wasn't usual to compare anyone who wants to tax the rich — or even anyone who estimates the share of last year's tax cut that went to the wealthy — to Adolf Hitler.

O.K., maybe we should discount remarks by Senator Phil Gramm. When Mr. Gramm declared that a proposal to impose a one-time capital gains levy on people who renounce U.S. citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes was "right out of Nazi Germany," even the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Charles Grassley, objected to the comparison.

But Mr. Grassley must have thought better of his objection, since just a few weeks later he decided to use the Hitler analogy himself: "I am sure voters will get their fill of statistics claiming that the Bush tax cut hands out 40 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent of taxpayers. This is not merely misleading, it is outright false. Some folks must be under the impression that as long as something is repeated often enough, it will become true. That was how Adolf Hitler got to the top."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/18/opinion/18KRUG.html