Robert Reich and Paul Krugman are preeminent mainstream-media mouthpieces of the redistributionist welfare state. They constantly disseminate the myths that the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes, and Congress is about to “slash taxes on the very rich”.
Yet they never attack the real source of America’s problems, crony capitalism, the economic foundation of the welfare state in which rich and poor alike are partners in crime with the government to rip off their fellow Americans. Reich and Krugman also propagate the myth that America’s deficit and economic problems could be eliminated simply by raising taxes on “the rich” and spending the new revenue on bigger government.
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