Tag: republicans
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Republicans Create Opportunity? Yeah, Right.
Republicans constantly proclaim that inequality is the price of prosperity. If things are more unequal, there’s more incentive–and crucially, opportunity–for people to better themselves. Everyone benefits from that. Except it’s not true. Let’s think about Joe the Plumber, who made $40K in 2006 but would like to buy the plumbing business he works for–for a…
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Pro-Growth Republicans III: Yeah, Right.
Following up on previous posts here, here, and here, yet some more debunking of this myth (Update: yet more here and here): Various have shot spitballs at this chart, but add it to all the others in previous posts–showing that over the long haul, Democrats deliver prosperity and Republicans don’t–and the notion that Republican policies…