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12. What gets me is the alleged journalists who interview Ryan about the bill let him go on and on...
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 01:33 AM
Dec 2017

about how the tax savings for the corporations will be used to raise wages and hire more workers and bring corporate money back from overseas — the same old, same old trickle down theory that Reagan and Jack Kemp pushed back in the 80s and what the repugs have been trying to implement since, to no avail — most recently in Kansas under Brownback where it failed miserably.

Ryan knows it doesn't work, that it's just bullshit that allows them to shift money upwards from middle and working class to the rich.

The journalists have to know this as well, just as we do, but they never challenge Ryan's talking points by simply asking: "What about Kansas? That tax cut experiment failed miserably and the legislature had to rescind the cuts to restore services as revenues fell way short. Why are we now supposed to believe it'll work this time? Your party has been trying this since Reagan and it has never worked. Ever. It has caused deep recessions however. Please explain?"

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