Liberals never learn

The American Thinker Blog ^ | October 21, 2009 | Lloyd Brown

[Scanian]

Although liberals sometimes blurt out the truth in public, mostly they pretend their nostrums make sense. Three specific examples of how liberals refuse to face facts:

Michigan is an economic basket case. As noted in the Wall Street Journal, the Democratic governor pushed through a tax increase on business in 2007. This is standard liberal practice -- pretending that a tax on business has no effect on the taxpayer.

But all taxpayers are consumers and business can only pay taxes with revenue from its sales to consumers. Still, Michigan liberal politicians adhered to the standard formulation and referred to the new taxes as "investments." If they were investments, they were investments in Enron. Michigan is seeing record unemployment and record deficits. After pledging never to raise taxes again, the Michigan governor's solution to the problem she created is - you guessed it - more taxes.

We can see another example of the obtuse vision "progressives" employ in the stimulus legislation. Without it, unemployment would reach 9 percent, they warned. With it, unemployment would peak at 8 percent. It was passed and unemployment is now 10 percent.

[albie]

Liberals never learn?! They know EXACTLY what they’re doing. It’s all in the name of redistribution and it works.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

This liberal practice of trying to solve all economic problems by raising taxes is the economic equivalent of the arcane medical practice of ‘bleeding’ patients. Just like the field of medicine, wherein ‘bleeding’ some patients in select circumstances makes sense (e.g. phlebotomy for Polycythemia vera), but is in the vast majority of cases a bad idea, taxation as a knee jerk response is ill-informed at best, and generally destructive.

[jwparkerjr]

re: When you are on an ideological jihad to reshape a nation, facts nor logic, nor past experience, can be allowed to intrude.

The money quote in the article.

[reaganator]

I know liberals who I know will not allow any annoying facts, data or historic examples get in the way of what the desire to believe.

Liberals suffer from delusion. Either that or they are simply deliberately ignorant.

[Scanian]

Liberalism is plainly a mental disorder.

[madison10]

That Canadian wench taxed my state to death. Good goin’, Jenny, as if things here weren’t bad enough.

[SunkenCiv]

Michigan is an economic basket case.

[grellis]

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