People Are Stupid Part MMIII

[Solitaire]

General Premiss: People are stupid.
Specific Conclusion: Bush will get reelected for four more years.
Evidence: Bill Moyers - Tax Justice (http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_taxjustice.html)
Summary:

Alabama’s governor, a fiscal conservative, decided to reform the
regressive tax structure replacing it with a more progressive one.
Under the plan the poor and the middle class would have paid less
proportional to income in taxes than the wealthy and the corporations.

The corporations and the wealthy then went on a media blitz portraying
their own potential tax hikes as being a burden upon the poor and middle
class. <He-he!> But even better the wealthy and the corporations used
their own history of corrupting the state government in television ads
as a reason for voting against the reform. <ROTFL!> In short they turned
a liability into an asset, as voters rejected the reforms by two thirds
majority.


P.S. On a side note, I’ve encountered real people who cannot laugh at a Dilbert cartoon. They stare at it and say, yup. I believe there’s a need to study their brains to figure out why they lack a sense of humor.

[Yahweh]

Originally posted by Synchronicity
P.S. On a side note, I’ve encountered real people who cannot laugh at a Dilbert cartoon. They stare at it and say, yup. I believe there’s a need to study their brains to figure out why they lack a sense of humor.

Isnt usually stupid people who laugh without "getting" the punchline...

[Cecil]

Originally posted by Synchronicity
P.S. On a side note, I’ve encountered real people who cannot laugh at a Dilbert cartoon. They stare at it and say, yup. I believe there’s a need to study their brains to figure out why they lack a sense of humor. These are probably the cynics who actually have a boss like Dilbert's. :D

[WildCat]

Maybe they're not as stupid as you think. (http://www.fa-ir.org/alabama/constitution/wall_street.htm)
As recently as March, he declared in his State of the State address, "I will not entertain the idea of additional taxes until we reform the policies and practices that have created the problems we face today."

Mr. Riley says he's trying to help the state's poorest residents by raising the income tax threshold to $17,000 from $4,600.

What he's not saying, but what tax-wary Alabamians seem to understand, is that these targeted income tax cuts would be more than offset by the tax increases on everything else. The Governor's proposal raises levies on, among other things, sales, services, mortgages, deeds, cigarettes, property, insurance and small businesses. And the poor would be hit hardest.

Not quite a no-brainer when you look at that pesky small print. And that whole "Jesus wants this tax plan" sales job was a bit strange.

[The Don]

Though fa-ir is not necessarily the most independent of judges in this case.

What he's not saying, but what tax-wary Alabamians seem to understand, is that these targeted income tax cuts would be more than offset by the tax increases on everything else. The Governor's proposal raises levies on, among other things, sales, services, mortgages, deeds, cigarettes, property, insurance and small businesses. And the poor would be hit hardest.

if he's not said it, how do they understand it ?

Anyway, I don't care 'cos i don't live in Alabama

[WildCat]

Originally posted by The Don
if he's not said it, how do they understand it ?

Because, believe it or not, many Alabamans can actually read the bill for themselves.

[Cain]

Originally posted by WildCat

Because, believe it or not, many Alabamans can actually read the bill for themselves.

I know Alabamans can read. My daddy is from Alabama. My mother is from Alabama. My brother is from Alabama. My sister is from Alabama. I'm from Alabama. My wife is from Alabama. In fact, the five of us were all gathered together this Thanksgiving and laughed at the unfounded hick stereotypes circulating through posh Manhattan apartments.