The unfailing belief in tax cuts and other head-scratchers

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By Sid Schwab

Here are some things I'll never understand.
How can anyone still claim cutting taxes increases revenue and magically provides the means to keep a country functioning? Why don't the Bush and Reagan failures to do so, and the contemporary lessons of such laboratories of doctrinaire tax cutting and deregulation as Kansas, Wisconsin, et al., inspire people to question the mythology? Aren't lousy bond ratings, budget deficits, anemic job growth, drastic reductions in crucial services enough to make people wonder whether they're being bamboozled, by whom, and for what purpose? How do they explain Minnesota's neighbor, where the Democratic governor raised taxes a little on the top 2 percent, increased the minimum wage, Republicans said the sky would fall, and the state moved near the top in job growth and budget strength? In their much-mocked California, the Democratic governor's progressive policies produced an economic turnaround and a corporate bonanza after years of Republican doldrums. Yet Scott Walker, whose state is in the pecuniary dumpster, leads potential R presidential candidates!

Another mystery: If a “reporter” says he witnessed certain things, and later claims he meant he saw pictures of them, what's a reporter? If he says he was in a combat zone but was actually covering a protest a thousand miles away, what's combat? If he writes he was on a porch in Florida and heard the sounds of a suicide, but was, in fact, in Texas, how big was the porch? For which network is lying a business model: one that defends a proven liar, or one that takes him off the air?

Someone explain: Why do all elected Republicans who received government help on their climb to success want to pull up the ladder behind them?

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