Reply #40: the only reason not to this time

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is because I can look at the numbers and see they are crap. Putting the payroll tax holiday on the progressive side is crap, much of that money goes to the top 20% http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9721446#9724586 If this was a Republican plan, Ezra might be rightly complaining about that fact. Oh, and that big graph of the "middle class tax cuts", how much of THAT money goes to people who make over $80,000 (unlike about 80% of households). Much more than 20%, probably about 50%. But sure Ezra, this is a huge victory for progressives. Except the numbers show it is not. Please note, I only start questioning his character AFTER I questioned his math.