Alan Reynolds wrote a good article at Townhall.com about the Kerry/Edwards’ habitually incompetent and/or dishonest use of economic facts.
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We would have all welcomed an honest debate on this “grand theme” that some unidentified Bush administration policies are somehow responsible for a mis-measured squeeze on an undefined middle class. Unfortunately, Kerry and his political handlers appear congenitally incapable of using statistics honestly. They view numbers as weapons of mass deception and could care less where the numbers come from or what they really mean.
Reynolds makes a cogent and succinct analysis of a recent Kerry/Edwards ad which just plain deceives voters:
Another new Kerry ad, “The Truth About Taxes,” says, “The middle class is paying the bigger share of the America’s tax burden, and the wealthiest are paying less.” The source, the Congressional Budget Office, figures the average income tax among the middle fifth of taxpayers fell from 10.4 percent to 3.4 percent of income, or nearly a third. The average tax among the top 1 percent fell from 24.5 to 19.7 percent, less than a fifth. The share of income tax paid by the top 1 percent is now 32.3 percent, up slightly from 31.6 percent.
How can an ad called “The Truth About Taxes” be so untrue?
Liberals wouldn’t know honesty if it hit them in the head.
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