Repubicans can't handle the truth

Ishmael · 2015-03-25T15:18:00+00:00

Liberals, Conservatives, and Jobs Just about everything I write evokes vituperative reactions from the usual suspects, but never so much as when I point out awkward facts. So there was a lot of mud-slinging when I pointed out last summer that California's economy - which conservatives said was doomed by tax increases and generally liberal policies - was in fact experiencing an impressive recovery. Why does this sort of thing bother conservatives so much? Well, it's an essential part of their belief structure that they have a secret sauce that lets them deliver job growth that liberals can't, as Rand Paul declared. Am I claiming that Democratic presidents were responsible for all this job creation? No, not at all, nor do I need to. The point, instead, is that their policies didn't prevent a lot of employment growth. That is, what you learn from both national experience and the California story is that you can raise taxes on the rich and expand access to health care without killing the economy. Republicans, by contrast, need to claim that Reaganomics produced all the job growth of the 80s, just as they used to claim that Bush's "ownership society" was responsible for any and all good news in the 2000s. That's why they're desperately trying to claim that the economic recovery now underway is an illusion. They can't handle the truth. Source: krugman.blogs.nytimes

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Start date Mar 25, 2015

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