"A newspaper fact-checks its own right-wing op-ed; hilarity ensues"
 

KC Star editorial staff and Heritage binge drinking the tea and playing fast and loose with stats. "Oops", indeed. :rolleyes:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hilt...05-column.html


"The Kansas City Star probably thought it was on solid ground when it published an op-ed by Stephen Moore defending the draconian, and economically debilitating, tax cuts instituted by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. (We reported on how the tax cuts have turned Kansas into a smoking ruin here.)
No-income-tax Texas gained 1 million jobs over the last five years...Oops. Florida gained hundreds of thousands of jobs while New York lost jobs. Oops.- Heritage Foundation's Stephen Moore on the effect of tax cuts on jobs. But all his figures are incorrect.

Moore's conservative credentials are impeccable: A former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, he's currently chief economist at the Heritage Foundation and a familiar face on Fox News and CNBC. So when his piece asserted that "over the last five years," the no-income-tax states of Texas and Florida gained jobs while the high-tax states of New York and California lost jobs, the editors waved it through.
Moore punctuated his statistical victory over Brownback's critics with the ironic refrain "Oops."
Oops, indeed.

It turns out Moore's statistics were dead wrong. He later explained that he was citing figures from 2007-2012, not the last five years. But--oops again--he got those figures wrong too. His errors were discovered by Yael T. Abouhalkah, a Star columnist, who took the simple step of cross-checking them against the source, the Bureau of Labor Statistics." LATimes

Oops, indeed. Kansas' tailspin still won't convince Republicans of the fallacy of their economic policies.

There was an interview with an author on NPR writing about Reagan who pointed out that RR never let facts get in the way of a good fabrication, and yet it goes on and on----.

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Funny how these a-holes keep pleading for just a little more time to make their austerity for the poor/tax breaks for the rich plans to work, while at the same time spouting off about how Obama can't fix the Bush Recession fast enough.

Krugman predicted lousy, myth-based analysis in January when Heritage hired this clown.

Suddenly the buzz is that the Heritage Foundation is coming back to its senses. The supposed evidence of this shift is the foundation’s decision to hire Stephen Moore, formerly of the WSJ editorial page, as its chief economist....

The point, anyway, is that the newly non-crazy Heritage will now have a chief economist who is the equivalent, for the dismal science, of having a chief scientist who denies climate change and evolution. If this counts as a move toward sanity, think of what that says about the starting point.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/201...ype=blogs&_r=0

So they are just moving the usual suspects around in the echo chamber.
GIGO.

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Indeed......

Here in Ohio things are doing pretty well and we had tax cuts.

Pete

IMO tax custs are one thig.

What we have is elimination of taxes completely on 200,000 of the richest people in Kansas, a drastic cut in income taxes for the rest of the upper crust, and a shifting of the total tax burden to the middle and lower income folks.

The average wage is falling, unemployment is up, and the middle class tax base can no longer keep up with upper class GOP spending.

Glad things are going OK for you in Ohio though.

At the moment.

Funny thing happens when you give rich people tax cuts.......They want more. Of course they do, these are the folks for who "more" is never enough. How in the hell do you think they got rich in the first place?:rolleyes:

Dave