Happy New Year, yall. in GOP HELL. H E L L One of the first acts of the Republican congress will be to fire Doug Elmendorf, current director of the Congressional Budget Office, because he won’t use “dynamic scoring” for his economic projections. That’s the magic math Republicans have been pushing since they thought up trickle-down economics: that cutting taxes unleashes economic growth and thereby produces additional revenue. The GOP wants to count the magic extra revenue against what’s lost when it hands out tax cuts, making it easier to push tax cuts through Congress. Incoming House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) calls it “reality-based scoring.” Another example of what were in for when the anti-fact, anti-science crowd takes over next week. Global warming? Evolution? Widening inequality? Pregnancy from rape? Voting fraud? If you dont like the facts, make them up. Better yet, hire your own expert.- Robert Reich
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:58:15 +0000
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