This much reported secret alcoholic
Meaning either that he isn't one, or at least it isn't sure, and they are just reporting slander, or that he is but controls it enough to minimize the problem. Either way something that's entirely irrelevant to the question of the policy issues the article is arguing against.
This is a Republican who courts Wall Street for ‘donations’
As if just about everyone in national politics, including the Democrats, doesn't?
John Boehner’s Republican Party cost Americans 8 million jobs
Most of the job losses occured after the Democrats took over in congress, and many of them after Obama took over as president.
True its not simply a matter of who is in office, but that applies both ways. The roots of the housing bubble, and thus the financial crisis and then the recession, come from both the government and the private sector, with the government side going way back.
and shifted the tax burden on to the backs of middle class families by giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy
False. Taxes where cut for essentially all income tax payers, and the percentage of taxes paid by the wealthy and by the very rich, increased.
plan is so bad that it would increase the deficit by $3.781 trillion
1 - Over 10 years, so under $380bil a year even by that calculation.
2 - Using static analysis. Ignoring the economic benefits of the tax cuts.
3 - Leaving taxes on a trend to be a larger percentage of GDP than the modern norm once the economy fully recovers, unless we have a later cut.
4 - What's really increasing the deficit is the spending, which has increased and is projected to continue to increase, far more than the projected revenue not received by avoiding this tax increase.
As for causing jobs to be lost, or "shipped overseas", nothing in the article supports that claim, despite it being the headline claim of the article. |
