My default major metro newspaper by virtue of where I live is the liberal leaning, but not quite outrageously so, Dallas Morning News. I grouse about their inability to exercise even minimal editorial oversight of their Letters to the Editor virtually every day. I don't advocate censorship of reader comments, but unless they are simply trying to highlight the ignorance of their readers it would seem prudent not to publish many of the baseless assertions which are put forth in support of you-know-who in Washington. If a reader writes absurd fairy tales that have long been debunked maybe they shouldn't make the cut for publication or maybe there should be a brief editor's comment correcting the falsehood.
To their credit, however, the DMN does a regular column called "Fact Checker" which takes statements in public debate of prominent political figures and subjects them to scrutiny. Even the Bamster gets the treatment and his whoppers are usually minimized if not totally debunked. The DMN tries not to make their Messiah look too buffoonish.
They went after Texas Sen. John Cornyn's statement a few days ago that we've finally reached a majority of Americans who pay zero federal income tax. To counter the bleats of the left that the successful need to pay their fair share, Cornyn pointed out the absurdity of half the population not paying anything but reaping the payouts. Here is what they found:
51% Don't Pay Uncle Sam a Dime
They twisted it, they turned it, and they couldn't make it come out any different. Maybe there is hope for the DMN yet. And maybe it gets a bit easier to understand why the Republican majority in the House is so adamant that there must be spending cuts without increasing income taxes on those few who still pay something.
Stunningly, it is the GOP that wants the successful to pay their fair share more so than the Dems.
3 comments:
Wonder if we should use paper airplane analogies. If 51% of the wing of your paper airplane is a crumpled mess, it will not fly.
You may have encountered a very rare phenomena that occasionally disrupts the space/time continuum. It's a highly disruptive force that usually tears holes on the very fabric of space when it occurs. Yes...
... A liberal discovered something wrong with how they do things...
...I know, I know, it's just a paper, but that actually means a few liberals figured this out, or the one in charge did and the rest are furious with them. Hang on, the shock waves will subside shortly!
In the beginning, or at least a couple of generations ago, the simple recognition of this travesty would've created an uproar.
But now the dependency culture is so entrenched, intractable, that I'm convinced there's not a recovery in sight.
Rare is the politician who will vote for a flatter tax structure - there are simply more votes at the base of the pyramid than at the top. The dependency culture can't even spell the word responsibility.
The engine's out and the nose is down - where's the 'eject' button?
Is there even an 'eject' option...?
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