Even though I have said this before apparently no one was listening so I have to say it again* because every time a new tax reform bill is proposed, the same clichés are trotted out and most of them are wrong. The purveyors of these clichés know they are wrong but they don’t care because they are trying to manipulate you to their ends. And, people fall for them.
Here is what the polls say about what Americans think about taxes (Gallup, Pew Research):
Las Vegas Shooting
Paul Craig Roberts
Dear Readers, I appreciate the confidence that you show in me with your emails asking my opinion about the Las Vegas shooting. Many of you suspect that it is another false flag affair, and you ask me about its purpose.
Authored by Dan Jackson via CampusReform.org,
Students at the University of California, Berkeley can now join their peers at Harvard University for the second semester of “Resistance School” aimed at fighting the Trump agenda.
Due to the high popularity of the student-run program, with more than “175,000 participants tuning in last semester,” Resistance School announced that Berkeley would be its “second campus” in a September press release.
Via The Daily Bell
The media says, “Jump.” And the public responds in unison, “How high?”
“As high as you ever have jumped before, except maybe after 9/11, or the Kennedy assassination.”
Of course, when there is news, it should be reported. Today it is reported sensationally, as entertainment. Is it meant to inform, or induce?
Which came first, the media’s obsession with violence, or the public demand for violence? In the 1990’s as violent crime in America dropped, the media filled more or more time slots with stories about violence.
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Few seem to ponder what global shortages in key commodities might do to prices.
If there is any economic truism that is accepted by virtually everyone, it's that inflation is low and will stay low into the foreseeable future. The reasons are numerous: technology is deflationary, globalization is deflationary, central banks will keep interest rates near-zero essentially forever, and so on.