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WaPo: Obama’s tax-cut brag a “whopper”
WaPo: Obama’s tax-cut brag a “whopper”
posted at 10:45 am on September 7, 2011 by Ed Morrissey We’ve heard Barack Obama lay claim to having passed the “biggest middle-class tax cut in history” many times since passing the Porkulus package, with his oddly-named Making Work Pay reduction of $800 per year from withholding taxes. (Did work not pay before Obama pushed Porkulus through Congress?) Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post decided to test that claim, and ends up calling it a “whopper”: We took an informal survey in our office and asked people what they thought the president’s statement meant. Everyone agreed he was claiming the biggest tax cut in terms of dollars.Er … all right. By Obama’s measure, a successor could pass a tax cut that reduces liabilities by $5 per person and allow it to apply to every American, and that would beat Obama’s dubious “record.” Small wonder that, as Kessler writes, the MWP cut went “largely unnoticed” by the American public, which was just a gimmicky rehash of George Bush’s “rebate” in early 2008. It was too small to matter in terms of economic growth, and the temporary nature of the cut meant that no one could do any long-term planning based on it. The proper measure of “biggest tax cut” should be based on GDP, with adjustments for inflation. Kessler ran the numbers for tax cuts over the last 50 years, and Obama didn’t even come close. So who does win the prize? John F. Kennedy seems to win the prize for biggest tax cut, at least in the last half century. By the same measure, the income tax provisions of George W. Bush tax cuts are more than twice as large as Obama’s tax cut over the same three-year time span.B-b-but … the White House claimed that they had “outside validation” for this claim! And they did, but as Kessler discovered, that “outside validation” used some odd sourcing: Incidentally, the report that the administration official cited as “outside validation” for the 95 percent statistic just mentioned it as an aside. We checked with one of the co-authors, and he said the source for the figure was a White House fact sheet.So this outside source parroted the White House talking points, and this White House calls that “validation.” Sounds like an echo chamber to me, and one that has a rapidly-decreasing membership. Kessler gives Obama four Pinocchios for this claim, but I’d also give them four Nelson Muntzes for their attempt to validate their material through talking-points echoes:
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That Ed Morrisey most certainly knows what he's talking about.
Still and in fairness to Barry or Barack, what's so special about his grandiose lying this time? Most all know (or at least should know by now) that most everything coming out of either side of Obama's & his Official Excusers' mouths, are WHOPPERS! He & Chicago Mob/Gang can't help it. It's inate. Besides, since inate lying is what got them The Office & Power first-off & to start with... why stop now? Hey,...whatever suckers the voters best,...even if nothing more than that usual Political BS. Wonder what smooth, slick & duplicitous BULL: "We The (Schnook$)" are in for tomorrow night? Neil P.S. Am also wondering how long before patriotfiles.com gets knocked off-line AGAIN by Politically-Correct (an oxymoron) Word/Media Police, because of the above? Demeaning & mocking King & Royal Court is totally unacceptable in America. Solely Republicans, Conservatives & those Nazi Tea-baggers (according to Dem Lords & Ladies) are fair game for belittling.
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