Laffer Curve drawn by Vanessaezekowitz (CC).
With millionaire dilettante Ron Johnson confirmed as Wisconsin’s senator elect to the government his own Tea Party professes to disdain, it’s a sure bet we’re gonna be bombarded with a lot of blather about how tax cuts for corporations and the uber-rich are supposed to magically improve employment and erase deficits. Which is utter batshit lunacy. But don’t take my word for it — run the numbers yourself. All within the linked workbook “Laffer Curve Analysis v1″.
Midterms are over; here begineth the real shitstorm: the struggle against Right Wing corporatists and faux populists trying to complete their destruction of the United States.
No, that’s not just the Wild Turkey talking. Haven’t touched the stuff for the better part of a week now. And though the night terror visions of President Palin’s Interior Secretary Don Blankenship leasing the floor of the House to BP for fracking natural gas and Treasury Secretary Richard Rahn outsourcing the federal minting operations to China have subsided, the daytime terror visions have only grown in intensity.… Read the rest
