An interesting turn of events from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
From Paul Roderick Gregory writing at
Forbes Magazine:
Sen. Harry Reid's Unicorns: Fact Checking A Whopper
Tax policy should be serious business carried out by serious politicians using real facts and figures. This is why we have the Library of Congress and the Congressional Budget Office, among other expert institutions.
How can we take Congress seriously when the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, makes patently inaccurate, outrageous and bizarre claims on an important tax-policy issue without any heads being turned? I guess this is what we have come to expect of Congress. No wonder citizens with favorable opinions of Congress are as rare as unicorns, to borrow a phrase.
Harry Reid�s statement on December 6 on his proposed 1.9 percent surtax on million-dollar incomes has kicked up some dust. Here is his statement:�Millionaire job creators are like unicorns. They�re impossible to find, and they don�t exist� Only a tiny fraction of people making more than a million dollars, probably less than 1 percent, are small business owners. And only a tiny fraction of that tiny fraction are traditional job creators�Most of these businesses are hedge fund managers or wealthy lawyers. They don�t do much hiring and they don�t need tax breaks.�
Taking their cue, National Public Radio launched a search for one millionaire job creator. They triumphantly announced:�NPR requested help from numerous Republican congressional offices, including House and Senate leadership. They were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview.�
What follows is a complete
pwnage of Reid and NPR done with IRS documents and Google. His source materials
are compiled here.
Posted by DaveH at December 26, 2011 10:55 AM