Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies by Paul Krugman at the NYTimes

[applegrove]

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies-lies/?smid=tw-share&_r=0

"SNIP...........


Lie #1: America is the most highly-taxed country in the world

This is a Trump special: he’s said it many, many times, most recently just this past week. Each time, fact-checkers have piled on to point out that it’s false. Here’s taxes as a percentage of GDP, from the OECD:

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Why does Trump keep repeating what even he has to know by now is a flat lie? I suspect it’s a power thing: he enjoys showing that he can lie repeatedly through his teeth, be caught red-handed in his lie again and again, and his followers will still believe him rather than the “fake news” media.

Lie #2: The estate tax is destroying farmers and truckers

Tales of struggling family farms disbanded because they can’t afford the taxes when the patriarch dies have flourished for decades, despite the absence of any examples. I don’t mean examples are rare: I mean that advocates of estate tax repeal haven’t been able to come up with a single example at least since the late 1970s, when exemption levels were raised to the equivalent of around $2 million in today’s dollars.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. at least double that now I have read on DU

[mcar]

2. The media does a terrible job of correcting these zombie lies

Krugman.

[sharedvalues]

16. Media just repeats words even if they are lies

When will the media start using their own brains and talking about the truth?

[Achilleaze]

3. republican lies are dangerous for America

[Stuart G]

4. Yes, the republican lies are indeed as dangerous as Trump.

And republican lies have been around long before Trump got into politics

[Cold War Spook]

5. Paul Krugman

"A country is not a company." I doubt that Trump will ever realize that.

[herding cats]

7. I imagine he knows it, but just doesn't care.

All he really cares about is what's in his and his cronies best interest. Or so I believe.

[sharedvalues]

17. Yup. Self enrichment. Corrupt stealing of tax dollars.

[calimary]

18. Welcome to DU, Cold War Spook!

trump doesn't, and probably can't, realize that. His outlook is so myopic and limited that he can't. Seems to me that since nobody's ever told him "NO, Donald!", and since he's always been rich, having been born into wealth, and has so effectively projected an image of power that nobody ever questions him (especially when he uses that power to bully and prey upon the weaker, less influential, and less monied), this shitty behavior of his that we now have to live with - has NEVER BEEN CHECKED.

There have never been any sorts of significant consequences that he's had to face, that might check or modify his shitty behavior. Everything and everyone in his life - all of it - has somehow reinforced or otherwise validated that shitty behavior. There's been no downside to check or modify his shitty behavior. NO consequences of any sort. Not in business. Not in investing. Not in public relations. Not in sex. Not in trendiness. Not with women. Not with colleagues. Not with adversaries. Not with the press. Not with the public. As a matter of fact, it's been quite the opposite. He's been rewarded with the ultimate prize on earth - the presidency of the most powerful country on earth: ours.

I keep thinking about that old cliche "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." I'm almost afraid to imagine what donald trump's ultimate fall might be. Because in his position NOW, he's poised to take us all down with him.

[Beartracks]

20. And a national economy is not a household budget.

Republicans like to draw that false equivalency, too.

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[calimary]

6. Krugman nails it again.

[JohnnyRingo]

8. Revealing op-ed. I advise everyone read it all.

Thanx for posting.

[BSdetect]

9. We need nation wide action to end this nightmare.

There may well be nothing left to save soon.

[MyOwnPeace]

11. We need.........

a DEMOCRAT to walk out to a news/press conference and state these very facts!

Yes, FACTS!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, Donny - you're full of it!

[cwydro]

10. K and r. Nt

[robbob]

12. He left out another whopper:

Trump claims these tax cuts will not personally benefit him or his family. "Not a dime" he said, or something like that. How does his base digest so many lies at a time?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. His base? They believe in The Wall, The Military, Fighting Muslims, & erasing the Kenyan's legacy.

[syringis]

14. They also believe earth is flat and in their supremacy...

I agree about supremacy. They claim it but never said in what they are superior...

I like things to be said precisely and clearly, let me do it for them :

Idiotic supremacists. I wouldn't be proud in their stead but how will they understand that ? They barely have 2 or 3 neurons, rarely interconnected.

[calimary]

19. And thus it should be asked - "then what does that say about THEM?"

I think we have every right to ask that, loud, and frequently!

[Wounded Bear]

15. K & R...the Good Doctor nails it again...

[Beartracks]

21. Thanks so much for this handy list of Truth. n/t