Big Business Paid For Their Beds, Now Republicans Have to Lie in Them

[Donnachaidh]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/walter-brasch/34735/big-business-paid-for-their-beds-now-republicans-have-to-lie-in-them

Historian and satirist Thomas Carlyle said "a lie cannot live." However, Mark Twain casually remarked, "It shows that he did not know how to tell them."

More than a century later, newly-elected Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-dominated Wisconsin legislature have proven themselves to be "quick studies," having learned how to tell whoppers about the working class and unions. Here are just a few.

LIE: The public workers' pensions are what caused much of the financial crisis not just in Wisconsin but throughout the country. Gov. Walker has repeatedly said, "We're broke . . . We don't have any money."

FACTS: Wisconsin had a $120 million surplus when Walker came into office in January. Had the newly-elected Republican-dominated Legislature in January not given about $140 million in special tax breaks (also known as "corporate welfare") to business, the state could have had a surplus, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. About two-thirds of all Wisconsin corporations pay no taxes at all, according to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.

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[Newest Reality]

1. Ah, but what opulent

beds that befit Kings and Queens!

Yet, what about those feverish nightmares?
Pitchforks, torches and guillotines?

[here_is_to_hope]

2. Who is gonna change the sheets?

Not me!

[DirkGently]

3. KNR