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2016 Postmortem

former9thward

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2. The reporter needs to get some refresher economics.

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2014, 01:48 PM

Jul 2014

The reason average wages have gone down is that decent paying middle class jobs have gone away and have been replaced with lower paying service jobs. It has nothing to do with the tax cuts. Also the headline should be titled the Bush-Obama tax cuts since Obama embraced them when they were set to expire.

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Report: $6.6 trillion lost on Bush tax cuts actually cost Americans $6.6 trillion in personal income [View all] UCmeNdc Jul 2014 OP

This would have knocked the debt down and without Bush's wars we could be on our Thinkingabout Jul 2014 #1

The reporter needs to get some refresher economics. former9thward Jul 2014 #2

One of the biggest transfers of wealth in human history. miyazaki Jul 2014 #3