{"id":36546,"date":"2013-05-31T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36546"},"modified":"2013-05-31T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:00:31","slug":"all-the-facts-that-fit-the-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36546","title":{"rendered":"All The Facts That Fit (The Narrative)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dems must smell their own blood in the water for next year; they’re frantically trying to attack the notion that tax cuts help create jobs…<\/p>\n

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…in the minds of those who don’t check the facts.<\/p>\n

This one’s been popping up on Twitter lately:<\/p>\n

State-Level Tax Cuts Don’t Boost Job Growth Study Says bit.ly\/X1m24L<\/a> #wiunion<\/a> #wiright<\/a> #p2b<\/a> #inunion<\/a> #nhpolitics<\/a> #stribpol<\/a> #topprog<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 America United (@Progress2day) May 31, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I looked at the link<\/a>.<\/a>\u00a0 It’s from “Think” Progress, which is always a good sign that you’re about to descend into the fever swamp.<\/p>\n

And it says…:<\/p>\n

The five states that implemented deep tax cuts during the 1990s experienced slower job growth over the next economic cycle than states that did not, and none of those states experienced income growth that exceeded inflation, CBPP found:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And what states were those?<\/p>\n

The post doesn’t mention ’em. \u00a0You have to look at the fine print on the handy graph they included:<\/p>\n

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Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts and New York?<\/p>\n

Five states that were pretty much boom economies throughout the 2000s before the crash (perhaps because\u00a0<\/em>of the tax cuts in the 90s)? \u00a0 States that in most cases had very little room\u00a0<\/em>for job growth – before the crash (at which point the “study” conks out), anyway?<\/p>\n

This is sort of like the Dems’ slur against Romney – the Massachusetts economy grew slower when he was Governor (because it was already pretty much steaming along at full bore)!<\/p>\n

Distrust, but verify. \u00a0Then, almost invariably, distrust some more.<\/p>\n

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Dems must smell their own blood in the water for next year; they’re frantically trying to attack the notion that tax cuts help create jobs… …in the minds of those who don’t check the facts. This one’s been popping up on Twitter lately: State-Level Tax Cuts Don’t Boost Job Growth Study Says bit.ly\/X1m24L #wiunion #wiright […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,69,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-socialism","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36548,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546\/revisions\/36548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}