[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.

[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!!!"

[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.

[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".

[j_tull]

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

[mtbopfuyn]

Our went up considerably but I'm not complaining because over all Bush has cut taxes. It's ridiculous how the media has run out of real problem areas that they are resorting to total lies. I've heard from older life long RATS who have seen the light and are turned off of from all the baloney and are voting Republican this time. Let the media keep it up and Nader will leave Kerry in his dust.

[Agnes Heep]

I don't credit any "study" that bases its conclusions on anecdotal evidence. That's what this piece obviously has done. It's facile enough for some half-wit to say "Duh, I didn't see any savings." But it's the responsibility of those who are using his testimony to verify its truth.

[chiller]

...btt

[MizSterious]

*The "revived" public Media Schadenfreude and and Media Shenanigans list.

[Mercat]

I'm printing out this article and stapling it to the copy of Newsweek in my reception room. I know, I should just throw out the rag. I don't subscribe to it, my landlord's wife does and she's the receptionist. She's a big lib. I don't want to create too huge a confrontation. I think making this article available will be enough.

[dead]

Newsweek should publish their pictures in black and white, so their dumbass readers have something to color.

Thanks Washington Times for a great, fact-filled rubuttal.

[paulsy]

I READ this article last night when I was at Barnes and Noble. I was scratching my head. Though I know Newsweek is a propaganda rag, I was still surprised because their campaigning was so blatant. My family has saved something like $9000 in taxes over the past three years. The article is just flat wrong and Newsweek REALLY needs to be called to task for this.

TIME also ran a economy piece (or something, I can't remember the specifics) that was trying to "come across" as objective in it's reporting. But within a paragraph or two, it was slamming Bush in subtle ways, and outright lying in what it said. The article went very soft on Kerry.

Then I picked up another publication, something the New York Times put out about retirement. The first chapter I opened to was about the need for a "national healthcare system" - it too was extremely left.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but it seems like this propaganda is EVERYWHERE. I'm looking at Yahoo online. Their news headers and articles are extremely liberal and more BS.

All this nonesense has its effect on people who have their "facts" filtered through these "credible" news sources. I have a son in Washington State. He's 11. His mother tells me he hates Bush. The first question I asked her, wasn't "why does he hate Bush" but rather "where does he get his information about Bush?". His mother said "CNN" and I said, "no wonder."

[chiller]

Thank you Washington Times! These slimes must be exposed far and wide. Disgusting.

I hope the Times and the WSJ expand on these 3 families in front page stories to further expose Newsweak.

[SW6906]

BTTT Expose the left!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good find!

Why such ignorance and lies from a supposed independent and "responsible press"? ... He asked rhetorically.

Have you sent this to MRC.ORG - They analyze and report media bias.