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"The Growing Danger of People Who Don't Know the Difference Between Opinion and Fact"
This post is composed of bits and pieces of copy-and-pastes from a number of editorials and Bush's White House press releases, which are opinions and right-wing propaganda.
The Brookings Institution begs to differ:
In fact, the economic expansion that lasted from 2001 to 2007 was weaker than average. A review of economic evidence on the tax cuts by Brookings Institution economist William Gale and Dartmouth professor Andrew Samwick, former chief economist on George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, found that “a cursory look at growth between 2001 and 2007 (before the onset of the Great Recession) suggests that overall growth rate was … mediocre” and that “there is, in short, no first-order evidence in the aggregate data that these tax cuts generated growth.”
In comparison, the economic expansion of the early 1990s — which followed considerable tax increases — produced a much faster rate of job growth and somewhat faster GDP growth than the expansion of the early 2000s. An analysis of business activity between 1996 and 2008 found that even the sharp cut in dividend tax rates in 2003, which proponents claimed would spur immediate business growth, had no significant impact on business investment or employee compensation after 2003.
And, when the tax cuts were scheduled to expire at the end of 2012, extending the high-income tax cuts in particular was projected to have almost no effect on economic growth. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in 2012 that extending the high-income tax cuts would have boosted GDP by just 0.1 percent in 2013. Indeed, allowing the high-income tax cuts to expire after 2012 does not appear to have had any substantial negative impacts on economic growth, as proponents of the tax cuts had claimed, and the economy has continued to grow steadily since then.
"The Los Angeles Times has described Brookings as liberal-leaning and centrist before opining that it did not believe such labels mattered. In 1977, Time magazine described it as the "nation's pre-eminent liberal think tank"
"The Los Angeles Times has described Brookings as liberal-leaning and centrist before opining that it did not believe such labels mattered. In 1977, Time magazine described it as the "nation's pre-eminent liberal think tank"
Many people of voting age (young and old) need to sharpen their critical thinking skills. Millennials don't hold a monopoly on that issue.
Also, I've been around enough to know that when someone dismisses an entire generation as "misinformed", it's often because they feel threatened by a viewpoint that doesn't match their own 100%.
So many comments by Millennials seem to be based on poor education. I see this all the time with grand kid and grand kid's friends (almost 20 years old and highschool grads)
Simple things cannot be answered because of ignorance
Things lik,e what is Socialism? What is Capitalism? What is the Bill of Rights?
When I try to answer, "I don't know anything!"
This is not confined to Millennials. One-third of all Americans can't even name the three branches of government.
"Funny thing is Trump is the one taking us backwards"
Yeah, I know. I mean who would want the LOWEST unemployment numbers in a long time. Who would want civil relations with North Korea and China. Who would want the Dow over 26. Who would want consumer confidence UP after being DOWN the entire obama admin. Who would want ILLEGALS stopped as best we can from entering our country ILLEGALLY. The list is of going FORWARD too long to post.
^^^^^This. I don't know where people get we're "going backwards". They are still mad about Hillary losing, and hate Trump. However, that's not "backwards". We are much better with Trump than Obama and of course Hillary would have been another Obama or worse.
AH, another snowflake who CAN'T HANDLE differences of opinions.
If you DON'T want to discuss issues, why are you here? This IS the politics and other CONTROVERSIES Forum.
I enjoy a robust debate on the issues with people who can back up their assertions with something other than editorials, opinion pieces, White House press briefings, and personal insults.
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