{"id":2431,"date":"2010-08-02T01:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T08:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2010-08-02T01:46:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T08:46:30","slug":"another-hand-job-from-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/another-hand-job-from-sarah\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Hand Job from Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Palin has been writing on her hand again.  But when what she writes is a lie, she only echoes her Republican colleagues.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"2Palin\"<\/a> Since he was on the campaign trail, President Obama has proposed renewing the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts for the lower- and middle-class, while allowing them to expire on schedule at the end of the year for the richest two percent of Americans. Republicans, however, have begun to obfuscate the issue by saying that the end of the year will bring history\u2019s largest tax increase<\/a>, deliberately leaving out that Democrats have proposed extending most of the cuts.<\/p>\n

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) pulled this rhetorical trick last week, saying \u201cDemocrats are poised to allow the largest tax increase in American history<\/a> to take effect,\u201d and on Fox News Sunday today former half-term governor Sarah Palin went down the same road. Fox\u2019s Chris Wallace rightly pointed out that \u201cthe Republicans keep talking about being deficit hawks. This is $678 billion you are not going to pay for.\u201d Palin responded \u201cno, this is going to result in the largest tax increase in U.S. history. Again, it\u2019s idiotic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wallace proceeded to let Palin spend the next minute reading from notes on paper that she had written down. He interrupted her just for a moment to ask if she had anything written down on her hand, to which she responded that she did:<\/p>\n

PALIN: My palm isn\u2019t large enough to have written all my notes down on what this tax increase, what it will result in.<\/span>\u2026 Democrats are poised to cause the largest tax increase in U.S. history, it\u2019s a tax increase of $3.8 trillion in the next ten years and it will have an effect on every single American who pays an income tax. Small businesses, especially, will be hit hardest. Small businesses account for roughly 70 percent of our job creation in this country. So raising taxes on these employers is the worst thing that can happen.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: Can I ask you, what do you have written on your hand?<\/span><\/p>\n

PALIN: $3.8 trillion in the next ten years, so I have didn\u2019t say $3.7 trillion and get dinged by the liberals saying I didn\u2019t know what I was talking about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch it: <\/p>\n

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Despite the preparation of her \u201ccheat sheet,\u201d she still doesn\u2019t know what she is talking about.<\/p>\n

For one thing, according to the Pew Economic Policy Group, an extension of all of the Bush tax cuts will cost $3.1 trillion<\/a> over ten years, once the costs of servicing the debt are factored in. But no one has proposed allowing them all expire, and it\u2019s incredibly disingenuous of Republicans to claim otherwise, especially since it was a budget gimmick by former President George W. Bush to include the ten-year sunset at all.<\/p>\n

Extending just the cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Americans will cost $830 billion over ten years. As Center for American Progress Associate Director for Tax Policy Michael Linden wrote, \u201cto put that figure in perspective, $830 billion is enough to pay for all veterans\u2019 hospitals, doctors, and the rest of the Veteran\u2019s Affairs health system, plus the United States Coast Guard, plus the Food and Drug Administration, plus the operation and maintenance of every single national park for the entire 10-year period \u2014 with more than $100 billion left over<\/a>.\u201d… [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Wallace was better that the standard for Faux Noise<\/em>.  He did call her on some things.  But during the piece neither he or Palin ever mentioned that Obama plans to extend the tax cut for everyone except the riches 2%. So people who watch this Fox have no way to know that this will not effect their taxes.  They have every reason to believe it will, because of Palin\u2019s inflammatory language and her lie about the amount.<\/font><\/p>\n

So what have we learned?  Mooseolini is still an idiot and Faux Noise<\/em> is still the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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