If the bush tax cuts to the wealthy are so good, ....

[Parche]

Then why have we had the sh*ttiest economy, and unemployment skyrocket in the last 10years........

[Andy823]

1. Well...

They are only good for the "wealthy" and since the wealthy run things, and republicans work for the wealthy, they have to claim they are "GOOD" for the economy and hope there are enough "gullible" who believe this so they will vote for republicans so they can make the economy better by giving tax breaks to the wealthy! The really sad thing is there are a lot of people who buy into this BS, and want to vote the same morons that ruined the economy back into power!

[Merlot]

2. That would be the .64 cent question

It's just a little to obvious for the pundits and talking heads. Or, rather, they don't like the obvious answer.

btw, why the pic of united airplane? did I miss something about them?

[Curmudgeoness]

3. This is a question that plagues me too. And the only answer I get

from RWers is that it will be much worse if they expire. Duh. That is the stupidest answer I have ever heard.

[gratuitous]

4. See, you really need a supply-side economist to answer that

But the upshot of it all is that it's Clinton's fault. Oh, and there's some Karl Rove Math involved.

[704wipes]

7. Don't forget there is some Mitch Daniels 2012 Math in there too

Director of the OMB when it all went down....

[Beartracks]

5. Because of their anti-recession properties, obviously.

Duh. :sarcasm:

Yeah, I've been wondering for a long time how GOP talking heads and politicians can tout the Magic Tax Cut as the way out of the recession, when the biggest such tax cuts ever PRECEDED the recession. The track record on tax cuts is pretty damn clear, and not just from this cause-and-effect conventional wisdom. Posted somewhere at DU recently was a graph showing the efficacy of tax cuts in generating economic activity, and it's pretty far down the list of options -- because for every $1 spent on tax cuts, the economic impact is significantly LESS than $1.

Trickle-down has been tried again and again, and it always ends in a recession. Honestly don't know how Boehner and the rest of the GOP can sleep at night after bloviating all day about such a stupid idea.

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[chelsea0011]

6. Only media people and talking heads who stand to lose their handouts

are doing the complaining. Last I looked, 98% of the population aren't part of the top 2%.

Everytime I read something critical in the Boston Globe with a conflict with the NYT, I get a reminder that they are owned by the Times. Why not the same with all the media talking heads? "I want to keep the tax breaks and I must say that I earn $2,000,000 in fairness".

[unblock]

8. because we didn't do it enough, of course!

surely you've figured out republican logic by now!

in fact, we should tax the lazy unemployed who are mere leeches on society and give incentive checks to the rich who produce jobs! that's right, a NEGATIVE income tax for the rich! that'll get the incentives right!

:sarcasm: