{"id":571,"date":"2010-12-02T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T18:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2010-12-02T11:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T18:13:57","slug":"the-truth-about-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"THE TRUTH ABOUT TAXES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following article, from Thomas Sowell in Front Page magazine confirms what I wrote in my last blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2010\/12\/02\/the-truth-behind-the-tax-cut-lies\/print\/\">http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2010\/12\/02\/the-truth-behind-the-tax-cut-lies\/print\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not aware of a single Republican who seems ready, willing and able to explain this.\u00a0 How is that possible.\u00a0 I am really tired of listening to Democrats talk continuously about the high cost of tax cuts and watching Republicans sit there like a deer caught in the headlights saying:\u00a0 \u201cwe shouldn\u2019t raise taxes on anyone.\u201d\u00a0 If we lose this argument it won\u2019t be because of the merits of our position but rather because our esteemed Republican leadership seems to be incapable of winning the argument.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the Democrats are much better at training people to stick with their core arguments.\u00a0 If you watch any Democrat on any news show you know exactly what they are going to say because they give the same answer, almost verbatim, to every question.\u00a0 Sadly, Republicans seem incapable of responding to this memorized spin.\u00a0 All a Republican has to do is look the Democrat in the eye and say:\u00a0 \u201cyour \u2018theory\u2019 sounds great, but fortunately we don\u2019t have to rely on a theory when the facts are available.\u00a0 History has shown us time and time again that cutting tax rates on the wealthy does not decrease tax revenue. \u201c\u00a0\u00a0 The best way to increase tax revenue is to grow the economy.\u00a0 Democrats are more focused on redistributing income than they are on growing the economy which increases everyones income.<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article, from Thomas Sowell in Front Page magazine confirms what I wrote in my last blog. http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2010\/12\/02\/the-truth-behind-the-tax-cut-lies\/print\/ I am not aware of a single Republican who seems ready, willing and able to explain this.\u00a0 How is that possible.\u00a0 &hellip; 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