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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a46393/maher-laboratories-of-democracy/
""If Republicans are going to continue calling states 'laboratories of democracy,' they're going to have to start looking at the results from the lab," said Bill Maher on Real Time last night before launching into an epic takedown of Republican governance and trickle down economics.
Republicans love to talk about small government, cutting taxes on the rich and shrinking government spending. But what do they have to show for it? In the cases of GOP-led Kansas and Louisiana, they have huge deficits and struggling economies. Liberal-led California, however, is on its way to being the fifth largest economy in the world.
"Thanks, Brexit," Maher snarked, before bragging about how California could soon pass the UK's economy.
"Democrats, from governor on down, control every office and voting body in this state. So we can really study what happens when liberal policies are tried unimpeded. And the only thing I have to say to Republicans about that is: scoreboard, bitches!"
Maher cited California's record-low energy prices and policies of giving driver's licenses and college tuition to undocumented immigrantspolicies the GOP say would tank the economy. So, what happened?
"The sky didn't fall, unemployment did. And growth shot up to four percent. And a $26 billion deficit became and $11 billion surplus... And that is mostly because we, horror of horrors, raised taxes on the rich," Maher said.
Mic drop."
Here is more:
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/steve-rose/article66947257.html
"If misery loves company, weve got company.
Kansas, meet Louisiana.
When he was governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, who recently unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president, must have read the same playbook that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback read.
Jindal and his conservative Republican legislature slashed income taxes, mostly on the wealthy, passed big tax breaks for corporations and ran up deficits with a whole host of measures.
Jindal argued that the tax cuts would stimulate business enough to plug the deficits.
They didnt.
The Louisiana budget shortfall is close to a billion dollars for the fiscal year that ends June 30 and $2 billion for the next fiscal cycle, which begins July 1."
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/steve-rose/article66947257.html#storylink=cpy
"California Makes America's Economy Great"
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-06/california-makes-america-s-economy-great
"Most of what makes America great is happening in California, where on Tuesday voters will decide the largest of the presidential primaries. The horse-race reportage from the campaign trail gets caught up in delegate counts and the daily back and forth, but beneath all that there is a consensus about the challenges facing the world: globalization, urbanization, climate change. California is addressing them better than any country, while simultaneously setting an example as the world's most diverse and dynamic economy.
If the state were stacked up against nations, California would be the seventh-largest economy, with an equivalent gross domestic product greater than Brazil's. It's not just big, but also booming. California had a 3.29 percent growth rate last year, more than five times that of No. 3 Japan, almost twice No. 4 Germany, about half again as much as No. 5 U.K., almost three times No. 6 France and a third more than No. 1 U.S.
California last year created the most jobs of any state, 483,000, more than the second- and third-most-populous states Florida and Texas combined (they added 257,900 and 175,700) and at a faster rate than any of the world's developed economies. The pace of employment growth was almost triple the rate of job creation for the 19 countries that make up the euro zone and more than 3.5 times that of Japan, according to data compiled by Bloomberg."
"The interesting thing that happened when Kansas cut taxes and California hiked them":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/17/one-state-raised-taxes-the-other-cut-them-guess-which-one-is-in-recession/
""If Republicans are going to continue calling states 'laboratories of democracy,' they're going to have to start looking at the results from the lab," said Bill Maher on Real Time last night before launching into an epic takedown of Republican governance and trickle down economics.
Republicans love to talk about small government, cutting taxes on the rich and shrinking government spending. But what do they have to show for it? In the cases of GOP-led Kansas and Louisiana, they have huge deficits and struggling economies. Liberal-led California, however, is on its way to being the fifth largest economy in the world.
"Thanks, Brexit," Maher snarked, before bragging about how California could soon pass the UK's economy.
"Democrats, from governor on down, control every office and voting body in this state. So we can really study what happens when liberal policies are tried unimpeded. And the only thing I have to say to Republicans about that is: scoreboard, bitches!"
Maher cited California's record-low energy prices and policies of giving driver's licenses and college tuition to undocumented immigrantspolicies the GOP say would tank the economy. So, what happened?
"The sky didn't fall, unemployment did. And growth shot up to four percent. And a $26 billion deficit became and $11 billion surplus... And that is mostly because we, horror of horrors, raised taxes on the rich," Maher said.
Mic drop."
Here is more:
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/steve-rose/article66947257.html
"If misery loves company, weve got company.
Kansas, meet Louisiana.
When he was governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, who recently unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president, must have read the same playbook that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback read.
Jindal and his conservative Republican legislature slashed income taxes, mostly on the wealthy, passed big tax breaks for corporations and ran up deficits with a whole host of measures.
Jindal argued that the tax cuts would stimulate business enough to plug the deficits.
They didnt.
The Louisiana budget shortfall is close to a billion dollars for the fiscal year that ends June 30 and $2 billion for the next fiscal cycle, which begins July 1."
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/steve-rose/article66947257.html#storylink=cpy
"California Makes America's Economy Great"
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-06/california-makes-america-s-economy-great
"Most of what makes America great is happening in California, where on Tuesday voters will decide the largest of the presidential primaries. The horse-race reportage from the campaign trail gets caught up in delegate counts and the daily back and forth, but beneath all that there is a consensus about the challenges facing the world: globalization, urbanization, climate change. California is addressing them better than any country, while simultaneously setting an example as the world's most diverse and dynamic economy.
If the state were stacked up against nations, California would be the seventh-largest economy, with an equivalent gross domestic product greater than Brazil's. It's not just big, but also booming. California had a 3.29 percent growth rate last year, more than five times that of No. 3 Japan, almost twice No. 4 Germany, about half again as much as No. 5 U.K., almost three times No. 6 France and a third more than No. 1 U.S.
California last year created the most jobs of any state, 483,000, more than the second- and third-most-populous states Florida and Texas combined (they added 257,900 and 175,700) and at a faster rate than any of the world's developed economies. The pace of employment growth was almost triple the rate of job creation for the 19 countries that make up the euro zone and more than 3.5 times that of Japan, according to data compiled by Bloomberg."
"The interesting thing that happened when Kansas cut taxes and California hiked them":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/17/one-state-raised-taxes-the-other-cut-them-guess-which-one-is-in-recession/
