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ironphoenix ([personal profile] ironphoenix) wrote2008-09-16 01:05 pm
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This graph says it all, really.1 Republicans are for the rich. It's that simple.

Why do so many poor and middle-class people vote for them?

1: Well, not really. It doesn't show the cuts to social programs that the Republican tax plan necessarily implies because of the reduction in net tax revenues, which generally hit low-income folks harder.

[identity profile] ironphoenix.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, trickle-down seems to have about the same kind of efficiency it does in ecological systems: about 10%.