“Now Governor Romney believes that with even bigger tax cuts for the wealthy, and fewer regulations on Wall Street, all of us will prosper. In other words, he’d double down on the same trickle-down policies that led to the crisis in the first place.” Read full article >> Full Story »
Posted by Pamela Hogle - via Memeorandum, Washington Post Fact-Checker
I find this an example of bad journalism. It is a Kessler opinion trying to look like fact checking. Kessler puts a very strong emphasis on defending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (leaving out the words "for the wealthy"). He does mention the deregulation of Wall Street but then employs spin to try to blame it on Clinton, despite the unspoken background that Clinton was just signing on to Republican policies that were opposed by Democratic progressives. Kessler ignores off-book wars, education, energy and jobs mentioned in the ad. There are polciies point Obama favors that could be rationally opposed, but Kessler misses them. Claiming biased opinion in fact-checking is bad journalism.
Reagan and Bush said we would all benefit from trickle down. We got the trickle, but we never got the down. Romney's magic secret future policies are voodoo to trick us into more trickle.