43 - Reverse Robin Hood: Bush's Latest Regressive Tax Cut / O'Reilly's Own Words Condemn Fox News

BLAST THE RIGHT

Jack Clark

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4.7 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2006

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In a recent poll, 60% of Americans said wealthy families don't pay enough in taxes. So what does the right-wing-controlled Congress run out and do almost at the very same time? Congress gave another huge, whopper of a tax cut to the wealthy, especially to the super wealthy.We'll first analyze the numbers to see who really benefits from this Bush tax cut; then we'll explain how to debunk the

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0:00.0	Music
0:20.0	Greetings!
0:21.0	This is Podcast No. 43 of Blast the Right.
0:24.4	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:28.2	Today in the main segment, we'll focus on the tax cut just passed by Congress and explain
0:38.7	how it illustrates so much of what's wrong with the right wing.
0:44.2	We'll also listen to Bill O'Reilly unwittingly tell us why Fox News is not fair and balanced.
0:52.2	Oh, let's get right into it.
0:55.4	Two weeks ago, I discussed a poll where 60% of Americans said wealthy families don't
1:02.6	pay enough in taxes.
1:05.2	So what does Congress run out and do almost at the very same time?
1:11.4	Since the right wing greed-mice does are in control, you know what they did.
1:16.3	Congress gave another huge whopper of a tax cut to the wealthy, especially to the super wealthy.
1:24.5	And this segment will first analyze the numbers to see who really benefits from this
1:30.2	bush tax cut.
1:32.3	Then we'll explain how to debunk the right wing propaganda defending this giveaway to
1:37.8	the rich.
1:39.8	Next we'll listen to a great American show us how progressives should be talking about
1:44.9	this and other economic justice issues.
1:48.5	And finally, we'll close with a short evaluation of the prospects for change.
1:55.0	My sources for this segment are articles that appeared in the New York Times and information
2:02.2	and data from the Census Bureau and from the websites of the Berkshire Hathaway Company
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