While he took on 7 talking points here are a couple highlights!
3. Shrinking government generates more jobs.
Wrong again. It means fewer government workers – everyone from teachers, fire fighters, police officers, and social workers at the state and local levels to safety inspectors and military personnel at the federal. And fewer government contractors, who would employ fewer private-sector workers. According to Moody’s economist Mark Zandi (a campaign advisor to John McCain), the $61 billion in spending cuts proposed by the House GOP will cost the economy 700,000 jobs this year and next.
7. It’s unfair that lower-income Americans don’t pay income tax.
Wrong. There’s nothing unfair about it. Lower-income Americans pay out a larger share of their paychecks in payroll taxes, sales taxes, user fees, and tolls than everyone else.
There was a time when Reich would have been considered a moderate voice. Today, that he even has to refute these bizarre, evidence-less talking points, shows how desperately we need to coast left, to demand that the right stop the headlong plunge toward fascist extremism, and to reassert that *every* American is a citizen, not just the wealthy ones.
Of course, when you have a guy like Reich who is loaded with facts, history, and good sense, all that’s left to the wingnuts is their glorious ad hominem savagery. No intelligent conservative economist can stand up to him–because his analysis is correct.
Clearly, you and Robert Reich belong to the same Economic Doofus Club.
Oh SNAP! Orlin you put the beatdown on him!! That was off the hook!! You da MAN!!
I believe Paul foresaw this insightful comment:
No, Rick, YOU DA MAN with that smackdown.
Rich, not Rick.