10 Lessons for Tea Baggers

[Lasher]

1. President Obama Cut Your Taxes


2. The Stimulus is Working


3. First Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt...


4. ...Then George W. Bush Doubled It Again


5. Republican States Have the Worst Health Care


6. Medicare is a Government Program


7. Barack Obama is Not a Muslim


8. Barack Obama was Born in the United States


9. 70,000 Does Not Equal 2,000,000


10. The Economy Almost Always Does Better Under Democrats

Details here at Crooks & Liars.

[phasma ex machina]

1. ==> First Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt...

since the time of Lincoln, the Republican party had always stood for strong central government, top-heavy bureaucracy, and hefty handouts to big business. - Riggenbach

[NJmaverick]

2. Some of these lessons need to be learned by DUers especially 1 and 2

[Lasher]

3. Maybe, but I was thinking I'd use it for email replies to Tea Baggers.

I'm not going to reach any of them but sometimes there are spectators. Mostly it's just fun to jerk their chains.

[hfojvt]

4. a few problems with that list

1. I wish Democrats were not pushing Reaganomics, or tax cuts = good

2. many DUers seem to adamantly disbelieve this at least as much as teabaggers

3. they support the myth that it was Congress and spending that increased the deficit under Reagan when the primary culprit was the tax cuts. Spending grew more slowly in the 1980s than it did in the 1960s and 1970s whereas the deficit grew more quickly in the 1980s.

4. Again, they are gonna blame spending, but not war spending and ignore the real culprits - tax breaks for millionairs and two wars.

5. I am not sure how you define a 'Republican state' here. Is California one? What about New Jersey? Is Kansas one? What about North Dakota? ND has two Democratic Senators.

10. This is not gonna help us much if things don't look better in six months.

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5. I think tax cuts can be a good thing.

And it's possible to decrease taxes on a substantial portion of the population while still bringing in more tax revenue. The difference is that republicans will call any tax cuts which benefit the middle class "socialist" and "distribution of wealth" while tax cuts which benefit the top 1% of income earners are essential for the economy and job creation. Republicans only like tax cuts if they're regressive and the wealthy are the primary beneficiary. Republicans don't like middle class tax cuts at all unless they're bundled with corporate giveaways. Right now, the lower middle class could really use a tax cut. Such a tax cut should be paid for by increasing the top tax rate to at least 50%. The wealthy have gotten a free ride in this country for far too long.

As for your gripe regarding republican states, he's referring to presidential voting trends. States that voted for the republican in the past two elections can safely be called republican states. States that voted for Bush in 2004, but barely voted for Obama in 2008 also are typically red if you look at trends over the past 10 years.

[SpiralHawk]

6. The k and the r

not that facts will ever penetrate the Republicon Homelanders excuse for an intellect.

[Lasher]

7. Thanks, Hawk.

I think I deserve at least 13 recs, just for having figured out the HTML tags for a numbered list.

:D

[ChicagoSuz219]

8. It's been so long I've forgotten the word...

...but President Clinton left a big (opposite of deficit) when he left office...

oh, yeah - surplus!