The Path to Prosperity Is Blue

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

HOW can America’s leaders foster broad prosperity? For most Republicans — including Donald J. Trump — the main answer is to “cut and extract”: Cut taxes and business regulations, including pesky restrictions on the extraction of natural resources, and the economy will boom.

Mr. Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan are united by the conviction that cutting taxes — especially on corporations and the wealthy — is what drives growth.

A look at the states, however, suggests that they’re wrong. Red states dominated by Republicans embrace cut and extract. Blue states dominated by Democrats do much more to maintain their investments in education, infrastructure, urban quality of life and human services — investments typically financed through more progressive state and local taxes. And despite what you may have heard, blue states are generally doing better.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opinion/campaign-stops/the-path-to-prosperity-is-blue.html?_r=0

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1. The problem is too many Dems refuse to believe this as well....

If every single Dem in every capacity of every level of government would be out there trumpeting the fact that data and history and sheer numbers show that this was the case and that it's been proven time and again that liberal policies work and conservative ones don't then maybe we'd stand a chance.

But too many for too long have bought into the notion that tax cuts do ANYTHING to stimulate growth and that raising taxes is automatically bad.

As is the way, never admitting that "the hippies" or "the left" or whatever bogeyman were or are right about anything is the main priority. Can't have the folks at Morning Joe or the Washington Post calling them "too liberal" or anything of the sort.