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Austan Goolsbee Versus Reality

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  October 7th, 2010 at 06:00 PM  | 

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The White House released a video defending President Obama’s tax hike plan featuring Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Austan Goolsbee.  My employer, The Heritage Foundation, has fact checked  the video and responded to many White House myths with our own analysis. 

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  • coldair

    Sorry; I don’t think this works. You cannot have a live person – who has a decent personality, after all – answered with little black-background graphics. You need a human being – with an equally attractive personality (either human, inarguable logic, or whatever …) responding.

    And you need a visual to counter theirs. Something that shows what a drop in the bucket the tax increase on the “wealthy” is. Fact: that “increase” is simply a redistribution plan, or an anti-capitalist plan, or whatever … – it does almost nothing for raising government revenue.

    You and I understand the silliness of the White House schpiel, but those we need to learn it from scratch – won’t from this response.

    IMHO.

    • djt0711

      And they need to make the point LOUD AND CLEAR- taking less of our money does not add to the deficit- SPENDING DOES!

  • Brian Darling

    I misspelled Austan Goolsbee’s last name in the title of my first post. Now say sorry to America for excusing the Obama Administration’s scheduled tax increases for middle class and wealthy Americans. The Obama Admin and Congress did absolutely nothing substantive on extending the ’01 and ’03 tax cuts. Reid nor Pelosi even tried to schedule a vote.
    The money that will be swallowed up by big government if these tax increass are allowed to kick in is not yours. That money belongs to private citizens. If you continue the tax cuts, you may be able to get the President’s approval ratings back up to almost 50%. That would be progress.
    President Obama’s popularity is dropping quicker than the Tampa Bay Rays odds of winning the World Series

  • jeffreywturner

    When they talk about “giving” something to taxpayers, does anyone else find it to be arrogant when a government refers to a reduction in the amount of our EARNINGS that they confiscate from us each year as a “gift”?

  • powertothepeople

    Thanks to Brian and to your employer for the great work you do!

    Second, it is amazing to me how many people are just plain out stupid. It is not that hard to understand that no one under the Bush plan gets a bigger tax break, except the leeches at the bottom who pay no taxes on income, as the percentage point is the same. In simpler words, if I go to the store and buy a candy bar for one dollar, I pay seven cents which is 7%. If I buy a flat screen TV for 500 dollars, I pay 35 dollars in taxes which is still 7%. I did not pay a higher percent in taxes, I just paid a higher dollar amount due to the higher cost. Same applies to the rich, or at least the ones the left see as rich. They do not get a bigger tax break, they just get more dollars on the break because the make more. But in return they pay a higher amount because the make more as well. I say we require that if they decide to screw those who make more by taking a higher percentage, we force all those at the bottom to pay a higher percentage in actual taxes so that they pay a closer dollar amount that the richer do. Gander and goose thing……

  • powertothepeople

    I posted

    I say we require that if they decide to screw those who make more by taking a higher percentage, we force all those at the bottom to pay a higher percentage in actual taxes so that they pay a closer dollar amount that the richer do.

    Should have been

    I say we require, if they decide to screw those who make more by taking a higher percentage, all those at the bottom to pay a higher percentage in actual taxes so that they pay a closer dollar amount to what the richer pay.

  • dave2131

    I am not sure it will hammer it home to people who are not sure about the extending the tax cuts. Seems like a reactive approach – where we should be proactive.

    Overall, I like it, but I’m not sure it will change someone’s mind who is on the fence. Maybe we need to get Andy Griffith to do a white board episode :D