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Robert Reich destroys Right Wing economist attempt to sell GOP tax cuts (VIDEO)

September 28, 2017 By Egberto Willies

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Donald Trump talked up his new tax cut proposal recently. Robert Reich, former President Clinton’s Labor Secretary, was paired with a Right Wing economist whose points he summarily dismissed. It wasn’t a contest at all as he completely outmatched Moore.

Robert Reich schooled Former Trump economic advisor Stephen Moore on economics 101 as Moore tried to sell GOP tax cuts using the debunked trickle-down economics.

Robert Reich schools Right Wing economist

Robert Reich destroys Right Wing economist's attempt to sell GOP tax cuts w/ the same old trickle-down economics(VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/H89Wp6NSpY

— Egberto Willies, Politics Done Right host 🇺🇲🇵🇦 (@EgbertoWillies) September 28, 2017

“Congressional Budget Office, Robert Reich, “said Stephen Moore. “Which is not a friend of the Republicans by any means as you saw the healthcare debate. They say 65% of the benefit of cutting the business tax rate goes to workers middle-class workers.

“I will believe that when you tell me that actually, workers have had a rise in real terms over the last years of all these tax cuts these big these big trickle-down tax cuts that you’ve been advocating for all these years Stephen Moore,” Robert Reich said. “But let me just say the corporations are now flush with cash. They don’t even know what to do with all their money. They’ve never had this much money as a percentage of the total national product. They’re buying back their own stocks because they don’t even know what to do with it. The wealthy in this country have never been as wealthy. They have never taken home as large a percentage of the total economy as they’re now taking home. You know the top 1/10 of 1% have more wealth than almost the bottom 90% of Americans. Why are we talking about a corporate and business and wealthy tax cut at a time like this? It makes no sense at all.”

“Because, Bob, you need businesses for jobs,” Stephen Moore said. “It’s that simple without an employer you don’t have a job. So we want to help those employers expand their businesses.”

“You are wrong about one thing that’s very very fundamental,” Reich said. “It is the middle-income and poor people who actually through their spending create jobs. Businesses are not going to invest in new jobs unless there are people who are purchasing. That’s one of the problems we’ve had over the last 25 years. This recovery has been as sluggish as it was because the middle class and the poor don’t have the money.”

And that is the knockout punch.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Robert Reich, Stephen Moore, Tax Cuts, trickle-down economics

About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

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