Taking a hint from their voter suppression strategy. The GOP has now pushed to suppress a report that doesn’t agree with their agenda.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a non-partisan research group that works for Congress to help them with research and analysis. In this case the CSR was asked to see if there is a correlation between top tax rates and economic growth. The CSR found that there was no correlation which doesn’t agree with the Republicans have been saying since Reagan, that “tax breaks for the rich creates jobs and helps the economy.” This theory known by many names, Reagannomics, supply-side economics, trickle-down economics and voodoo economics has been criticized and discredited since it was introduced. Since the study doesn’t agree with the GOP agenda of tax breaks for the rich, instead of dealing with the reality that the theory doesn’t hold water the GOP decided instead to suppress the report.
The GOP is acting like a child who puts his fingers in his ears and scream when you tell him something he doesn’t want to hear.
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