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The Invincible Lie: Part II

PV Wrote: Jul 13, 2012 5:49 PM
The effective tax rate of middle class families in the 1950s was 5%. This enabled families to live very well on one income and have a full-time parent at home. I believe that the modern need for two-income families completely arises just from the need of paying all of the extra taxes that have been levied and increased, and the costs of day care because no one is still at home.

Editor's Note: This column is part II in a series. Part I can be found here.

Nothing produces more of a sense of the futility of facts than seeing someone in the mass media repeating some notion that has been refuted innumerable times over the years.

On July 9th, on CNN's program "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, commentator Gloria Borger discussed President Obama's plan to continue the temporary extension of the tax rates established under the Bush administration -- except for the top brackets, where Obama wanted the tax rates raised.

Ms. Borger said, "if you're going to lower the tax...

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