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Taxing money out of the private sector economy and putting a fraction of it back in will magically grow the economy.
Confiscating more of a business's capital will cause the owner to expand the business and hire more people.
Every private sector industry is owned and run by inherently evil people while those who run the government are caring and compassionate and will always put the people's needs first.
It's okay to steal if the person you're stealing from has more money than you.
The government is better at spending your money than you are.
Health insurance companies are evil, diabolical people who would rather have people dying out in the streets than part with a nickel.
When a private sector company profits from providing a product or a service people need, it's theft/wealth redistribution, yet when the government confiscates wealth/private property from individuals (in return for nothing), it's compassion.
If you steal money from a rich person and give it to a poor person, you've done a good deed.
Slavery is okay as long as the government runs the plantations.
Banks are evil for giving mortgages to people who couldn't pay them back, even though the government mandated they be given mortgages.
Every dollar not taxed out of your paycheck is a generous gift from the government.
Government bureaucrats are better suited at making health care decisions for you than you and your doctor are.
People who work in the private sector should eat dog food, while government union workers are entitled to paychecks that are disproportionately large to the work they do, long vacations, gold-plated retirement benefits, full health benefits, and can continually demand more and more.
Printing money and putting it in the economy will cause the economy to grow.
Failure to redistribute wealth fast enough will result in the Earth's climate changing.
If we outlaw guns, criminals won't use them.
Sentencing a criminal to death is cruel and unusual while killing a baby who hasn't yet even had a chance to experience the world is compassionate.
Islam is a religion of peace, while Christianity is a religion of violence.
Tolerance is trying to silence anyone who disagrees with you.
Appeasing our enemies will make them like us.
(Insert name of private sector industry) is now making RECORD profits.
French fries are hazardous to your health, yet snorting heroin is good for you.
Marriage is wrong unless it's two men, two women, transsexuals, man and animal, etc.
Global warming is happening because Al Gore says so.
Teaching children about the bible is bad, yet teaching them how to put a condom on a cucumber is good.
80 year old white nuns and white babies are more likely to hijack an airplane than middle-aged Arab men.
The same policies that were utterly destructive under Bush are okay when they're continued by Obama.
Women, blacks, Hispanics, gays, Jews are all too stupid to know what's best for themselves, so they best shut up and vote Democrat.
Throwing more money at a problem will always fix it.
It's okay to break the same laws you advocate for everyone else.
When your side wins, elections are fair, when you lose, it's because elections are rigged.
It's okay to use the public treasury as your own personal piggy bank.
It's okay to ignore the Constitution when it doesn't support your agenda.
If a Palestinian fires rockets at Israeli schoolchildren it's okay, yet if an Israeli flings a rubber band at a Palestinian it's attempted murder.
It's okay for taxpayer-funded organizations (e.g. NPR, PP, etc) to use taxpayer money to lobby for more taxpayer money.
Misappropriation of funds by the government is compassionate.
Republicans are out to kill everyone who isn't a rich, white, heterosexual Christian male.
This has been done so many times. Facts only make them mad, but I'll rep it just because of the time you took to do it.
You can add:
38- Personal attacks make a perfect replacement for facts and logic
39- Accounting and accountability are just concepts like God and common sense
40- there's plenty of money
It needed to be rounded off... oh there I go doing math again!
How about we make a list of stupid things that partisans from either the left or right say about each other. It could be the same list, we'll just change each line to mean the opposite.
Then ignorant people from both sides of the fringes of political thought can get all emotional and try about how the Republicans/Democrats are screwing things up.
47- Bush caused all the problems by getting us into two wars and running the debt up $4T in eight years. To "FIX" it, Obama added $3.8T to the debt in three years and another war. Problem solved.
48- Believe that Obama was entirely responsible for Bin Laden getting taken out.
49- Will vote for Obama because he took Bin Laden out
50- The economy is getting better
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