Ignorance Index: Conservative Dogma vs. The Facts

We've brought together basic facts and charts to help you take on some of the Orwellian, "ignorance is strength" falsehoods used by conservative leaders to control the economic debate.


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Ignorance Index V: The "Spending Problem"

By Robert Borosage
July 18, 2011

Conservatives argue that America has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.   We earlier dispelled the myth that Americans – particularly wealthy Americans – pay too much in taxes.  Now let’s look at the spending question.

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Ignorance Index IV: Job-Killing DE-regulation

By Robert Borosage
July 15, 2011

House Speaker John Boehner and his Tea Party comrades regularly assail “job-killing regulations that are strangling employers all over the country.” Lurid, graphic, and no doubt focus group and message dial tested, these very words – job-killing regulations strangling employers – are on the palm cards for every conservative politician or Fox News anchor. more »

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Ignorance Index III: The Revenue Problem

By Robert Borosage
July 14, 2011

“.. Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem,” says House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). All Republican legislators have been taught to chant this tired Republican “talking point” as if it were the Hare Krishna mantra. more »

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Ignorance Index II: The Spending Cuts Myth

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July 13, 2011

Conservative Republicans hold as an article of faith that cutting government spending creates jobs, even in the midst of a recession. more »

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Ignorance Index I: The Tax Lie

By Robert Borosage
July 12, 2011

Conservatives say they are prepared to blow up the economy by not lifting the debt limit if that is what it takes to avoid raising taxes on the rich – even to avoid closing loopholes that have hedge fund billionaires paying a lower tax rate than their chauffeurs. more »

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