Monday, November 22, 2010

Some Facts on Tax Cuts and Jobs

  1. During Clinton's 8 years, 22.7 Million Jobs were created and the deficit was reduced by budget surplus.
  2. During Bush's 8 years, after the Tax Cuts, 1.1 Million Jobs were created and the deficit was increased about $7 trillion.
Which do you like better, 1 or 2?

To check this out,  get "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class" by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson.  Hacker is a Professor of Political Science at Yale and Pierson Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley.