Non-Partisan Congressional Tax Report Debunks Core Conservative Economic Theory-GOP Suppresses Study

Mark

From Forbes.com
"What do you do when the Congressional Research Service, the completely non-partisan arm of the Library of Congress that has been advising Congress—and only Congress—on matters of policy and law for nearly a century, produces a research study that finds absolutely no correlation between the top tax rates and economic growth, thereby destroying a key tenet of conservative economic theory?

If you are a Republican member of the United States Senate, you do everything in your power to suppress that report—particularly when it comes less than two months before a national election where your candidate is selling this very economic theory as the basis for his candidacy."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/11/02/non-partisan-congressional-tax-report-debunks-core-conservative-economic-theory-gop-suppresses-study/#7ea9cf5c431b

rforno

Even though this happened back in 2012, some things in this town never change. To some in Washington, objectively researched data are inconvenient things..... and hence we have "alternative facts" nowdays.

LewisBraham

It's only "fake news" if it disagrees with what you already think.

rforno

Yup.

LewisBraham said:

It's only "fake news" if it disagrees with what you already think.

davidrmoran

jeez is this old news

BobC

This is the same tactic used by the Dems when they were in control and the CRS issued reports they did not like. Politics is politics. And while this is not fake news, it is OLD news.

LewisBraham

@BobC

This is the same tactic used by the Dems when they were in control and the CRS issued reports they did not like.

Please provide an example.