The following is what must be denied at all cost!
Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:40 PM
Taxes Lowest in Nearly 60 Years
David A. Graham
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2010-05-10-taxes_N.htmDemocratic leaders will no doubt be glad to see this report in this morning's USA Today. The paper ran the numbers, and by their calculations, Americans haven't seen such a low bill from the tax man since 1950. For those of you keeping score at home, that's 11 years before President Obama was born. Here's the key paragraph:
Federal, state and local taxes—including income, property, sales and other taxes—consumed 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports. That rate is far below the historic average of 12% for the last half-century. The overall tax burden hit bottom in December at 8.8% of income before rising slightly in the first three months of 2010.
The reasons, the article suggests, are the tax cuts that were included as part of the economic stimulus passed in February 2009, a shifting of the tax burden toward the wealthy, and a decrease in sales tax paid as many Americans slashed their consumption.
In some ways, USA Today's report is a rebuttal to Tea Partiers and others who have complained about their supposedly intolerable tax burdens—the Tea Party's name is sometimes portrayed as backronym for "taxed enough already"—except perhaps for those in the highest brackets. It also slaps down the perception thatBarack Obama has raised taxes on most Americans (Obama has pledged not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.) These figures tend to undermine the populist complaint that citizens are being sucked dry and back up Democrats who have countered antitax protesters by saying tax rates aren't going up. Lo and behold, they can now say, they're lower!
Urgent Memo! C O N F I D E N T I A L
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TO: All Teabaggers, Rent-a-mob Outlets and Fox Trotters
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From: Corporate Fascism HQ, Wall Street, USA
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Effective immediately, you must begin undermining this story. If the American people learn how we have been lying to them, the whole foundation of our years of cumulative Campaigning will collapse, and we will not be able to keep the American Public so confused they will vote for us in November. Confusion and distraction are out greatest allies!
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Truth is our greatest enemy. You MUST initiate more distractions by more marches, Letters to Editors, Email blitzes and support of our paid professional actors on Fox Propaganda Channels and on Attack Radio. Deny that they are millionaires who we pay to lie to the American people. Claim instead that they are Patriots!
Deny that we constantly spew addictive anger in order to generate hatred of democratic Governments. Deny that we have developed a system to utilize TV to Digitally Lobotomize those less intelligent among us, to turn them into Drones under our control, to send out at our Beck and call wherever we tell you vigilantes are needed.
And most of all, deny that Glenn uses onion juice to make himself cry! That is an accepted procedure that actors use all the time, and even if he does, it does not make what we tell him to say any less sincere.