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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) graph tells us all we need to know about stimulus

This is from a report given to congress, linked here




It examines the stimulative effects of different proposals.  It's pretty easy to read, the longer the bar, the more dollars it brings to the economy, the shorter creates less stimulus.  


Note the two shortest bars, reducing taxes on business income and a tax holiday for foreign investment funds to come back home.  


The longest bars are policies that are proposed by the President.  The least effective are the ones proposed by the right wing. (You can add deregulating all safety and environmental regulations as their policy too, with little stimulative effect but HUGE costs)


Yet we have roughly half the country that believes what the Republicans tell us.  Why would anyone in the bottom 90% support the GOP?


Vote all Republicans out of office.  Removing the right is the only right thing to do.


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