Newsweek piece 'doesn't add up' [Scam at Newsweek]

Washington Times ^ | Apr 10, 2004 | editorial

[The Raven]

With a gigantic IRS 1040 income-tax form covering a slightly ajar door presumably leading to a room filled with tightly guarded information, the headline of Newsweek's current cover story screams: "The Dirty Little Secret of the Tax Cut: Why It's Smaller Than You Think." Inside, the article greets the reader with the bold assertion: "Why Your Tax Cut Doesn't Add Up." But the only thing that doesn't add up is the article itself. It is replete with misstatements and distortions masquerading as the real-life experiences of Americans since President Bush's tax cuts were enacted in 2001 and 2003.

[The Raven]

Why Your Tax Cut Doesn't Add Up(anti tax-cut piece)

[CyberAnt]

Amazing .. the lengths to which the rabid dems will go in order to regain their power.

Poor Eleanor Cliff .. she's having one bad day after another .. I have not seen the woman smile since Bush got elected. I wonder how much involvement she had with this hit piece.

Talk about journalistic ethics being violated - these people are going off the deep end.

[KAUAIBOUND]

What is truly pathetic is that Newsweek's assertions are so easily refuted, and any thinking person would recognize that something was fishy about this blatantly untrue article. However, the typical Rat will accept it as gospel truth, and spread the lie to their equally ignorant friends.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Talk about journalistic ethics being violated... I think we have to realise that mainstream media these days is not news - it's "news entertainment" - it's a bit like the WWF (World Wrestling Federation) that's "sports entertainment". If anyone is seriously interested in news they won’t be going to newsweak!

[Dr. Juris]

In the United States, the top 1% of taxpayers typically pay about 30% of income taxes. The top 10% pay about 60%, and the top 25% about 80%. The bottom 50% pay less than 5%.

As noted by Paul Craig Roberts in his 1997 column, The Poor Have Enslaved The Rich, “Once we perverted our democracy in 1913 with a constitutional amendment permitting an income tax, we set about enslaving our most productive citizens.”

Harrison, George:
(a commentary on England’s 95% tax rate on upper incomes)
Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you nineteen for me
Cause I’m the taxman
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
Cause I’m the taxman

Jefferson, Thomas:
To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, “the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.”

Lincoln, Abraham:
That one man can labor more productively than another no more entitles him to the lesser man’s little than the lesser man is entitled to the greater one’s much.

Plato:
When there is an income tax, the just will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Sobran, Joseph:
The flat tax is less unjust than the graduated tax, but it is still unjust. It causes some people to pay more than others for the same goods. . . . The fairest method would be for everyone to pay the same amount for government services. . . . Just take the government budget, divide by the adult population, and you’ve got everyone’s fair share of taxes.

Reagan, Ronald:
Republicans believe that every day is the fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

[SkyPilot]

"Newsweek biased? Never!!!"

[canuck_conservative]

It is a joke - what we are witnessing now is nothing less than The Big Lie, an attempt to rewrite history: Bush is evil, Clinton was great. It's really disgusting.

But I think it's a big mistake to just laugh them off. That media still influences a lot of people, and there is a very real chance that the general public will, by summer's end, be brainwashed.

We've got to stand up to these liars NOW, or Kery's in. That's scary.

[Waco]

Can't Newsweak get it's head out of it's butt log enough too realize that people already know whether they have got lower taxes? Good grief, the last couple of years have shown us, why didn't Newsweak get a clue? Proagandists!

[Lakeside]

We get Newsweek but I don't know how or why as we never asked for it nor paid for a subscription.It goes in the trash,unopened, as soon as it comes in the mail.What a pitiful excuse for a news mag. News distortion is it's middle name.

Most of the media whether t.v. or written word are biased lefties but Newsweek has a corner on that market. To me they are the worst and this tear-jerker of a hit piece should take none of us by surprise.

I'm one of those who was taught that hating is wrong.But the more I read/hear their selfish, un-American, power grabbing diatribes, that teaching is unraveling.

[jwalsh07]

BTT

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Luke 19:26
For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.

On the other hand:

Luke 12:48
...For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

However, one should check the differing contexts.

[raybbr]

You cannot petition a democrat with logic. It hurts their minds.

[mo]

IMHO "news" outlets-Newsweek/NYT etc..that publish as news what should be labeled and published on their OP/ED pages may well be guilty of mail fraud.

[Puddleglum]

Who the hell subscribes to Newsweek anyway besides public libraries and doctors' offices? I'm serious - I wonder what their demographic is - the people who think "Us" magazine is too sententious? It's hard to organize a boycott against a magazine no-one buys.

[Hacksaw]

One of my cousins refers to Newsweek as "The Comic Book".

[avital2]

forget economics: here's the political point: the cuts were big enough to pull us out of the Clinton recession to the strongest quarter in 20 years!!! and that's the TRUTH!!

[Gorzaloon]

We get Newsweek but I don't know how or why as we never asked for it nor paid for a subscription.

Maybe the Glorious Revolution of the Red Dawn thinks there is hope you can be salvaged.

My wife attended college in Massachusetts, and was informed there that she WOULD read Newsweek..and that was a long, long time ago, now. It's just part of the institution...the Left's Little Red Book.

[Bon mots]

I like your spelling of Newsweak.

I long ago stopped reading Time and Newsweak due to their yellow journalism and extreme leftist bias. Both rags have degenerated into the "anti-Bush hatchet job of the week".

Nobody of any real intelligence reads either.

[ride the whirlwind]

...the typical Rat will accept it as gospel truth, and spread the lie to their equally ignorant friends.

You can take that to the bank!

[j_tull]

Bookmarking-for when my father-in-law calls to tell me about Bush's lies.