Want to see something REALLY funny?? GOP "report" on Democrat (sic) Budget Proposal

[Roland99]

http://budget.house.gov/republicans/press/2007/pr20070322b.pdf

The Democrat budget reported Wednesday proposes the largest tax increase in U.S. history – $392.5 billion over 5 years – mainly to finance immense new spending through 2012. Although they try to insist otherwise, the figures in their budget assume these tax increases will occur automatically – and without them they cannot achieve a balanced budget, as they claim.

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These tax increases also threaten to reverse the substantial deficit reduction that has occurred in the past several years.

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:rofl: :rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

1. They write as stupid as they talk

[unpossibles]

2. Seriously. I honestly wonder sometimes

if they are all morans, or just sucking up to morans.

[jwirr]

8. I think that the majority of them get their information from only rw

sources and they have never learned to question everything. What their sources tell them is the only "truth" they need. They truly want to appear ignorant.

[Roland99]

11. I truly think they don't care. They want to CREATE a message and they'll lie their asses off.

[Monkeyman]

5. Ah Yeper

[deepthought42]

3. Is today opposite day?

Next they're gonna tell me Clinton never balanced the federal budget... :eyes:

[BOSSHOG]

6. I always chuckled at the notion

that blowjobs were bad things.

[Roland99]

7. .

:spray:

[deepthought42]

9. I miss the days when the worst thing the President had done

was mess around with an intern. Stupid, yes. Impeachable offense? No. I don't really care if he lied about it. He lied about fooling around w/an intern. It's none of my business. I don't care. *sigh*


They're only bad when it involves other people....lol ;)

[drm604]

4. WTF?

Just... WTF?

[hfojvt]

10. shows they plan to push the "tax increase" message

Plus the 'tax increases will kill economic and job growth' message

"Ignoring Economic Consequences. These massive tax increases would likely reverse the economic gains that have developed since adoption of the 2001 and 2003 tax laws, which include the following:
- Job Growth. A total of 7.6 million new jobs have been created – an average of 168,500 per month. In the prior 27 months, the economy lost 2.7 million jobs – an average of 100,000 jobs lost per month."

However, 'the prior 27 months' includes the year 2002, which was long after the first Bush tax cut was passed in May of 2001. They also mention 'the largest tax increase in history' which was in 1993 (according to them). Yet in 1994, the economy created 3.85 million jobs - an average of 320,000 per month, almost twice the 168,500 per month they want to brag about. Looking at the next 3 years, there were 8.3 million jobs created, and 8.08 million in the next 36 months. So, to compare
After Republican tax cuts for the rich - 46 months - 7.6 million jobs
after Democratic tax increases for the rich - 46 months - 11.55 million

They have charts purporting to show GDP growth before and after tax cuts, but they ignore the tax cuts that were passed in 2001. They mention their usual line about how revenues are increasing, ignoring the fact that 'revenues' includes income AND payroll taxes.

[Roland99]

12. Tax cuts that were meant to EXPIRE in 2010! Also, about those jobs numbers....

168,500/month? What a sad, sad fact.

Look at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) graphs of job growth from prior expansions. This one is pretty much in the crapper and, when you take away the increased Federal jobs, is actually in the hole from the equilibrium monthly level (150k-160k new jobs per month) to keep up with population growth or a growing LFPR.

[hfojvt]

15. except LFPR has been going down, or has gone down anyway

IN 1990 it was 66.5% and in 2000 it was 67.2%. Last month, though, it was only 66.2%. If the 2.3 million who have dropped out of the labor force were added to the unemployment rate it would increase to 6%.

The tax cuts were never meant to expire. Republicans just sold them that way so they could make them look like they would not explode the deficit.

[Roland99]

16. The LFPR was starting to work its way up until recently.

As for the fall back in 2000-2001, that was from the domino effect of the dot-com bubble bursting.

[Richard Steele]

13. Problem is, their big "economic gains" are all fiction.

B*sh has been a goddamn economic DISASTER for 99% of this nation.

He just has a compliant media who keep repeating the LIE
that this is a strong economy. It's not. And every aspect
shows it, if you take 2 seconds to question the official
propaganda.

[sakabatou]

14. At almost every single turn

Reality disagrees with the GOP.