{"id":60,"date":"2011-06-21T05:25:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2011-06-21T05:26:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:26:25","slug":"thinkprogress-since-1950-lower-top-tax-rates-have-coincided-with-weaker-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"ThinkProgress:  Since 1950 Lower Top Tax Rates have Coincided with Weaker Economic Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/06\/20\/249061\/chart-taxes-economic-growth\/\">http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/06\/20\/249061\/chart-taxes-economic-growth\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s critical we get the word out on studies like this . . . yesterday, The New Republic\u00a0 reported on the\u00a0possibility of the white working class vote swinging more Republican than in the 2008 election and we need to get the word out that it&#8217;s the Republican party and their policies that are worsening these conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/90241\/obama-election-2012-working-class-kerry\">http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/90241\/obama-election-2012-working-class-kerry<\/a><br \/>\nAnd make no mistake about it, GOP strategy for 2012 will start with the white working class and attempt to drive up support among this group as high as possible. As an example, just take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/romney-bets-his-candidacy-on-the-economy\/2011\/05\/28\/AGr6IRDH_print.html\">Romney\u2019s recently declared strategy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Romney advisers see a disconnect between the president\u2019s announcements of real progress on the economy at a time when there is, in the words of one, \u201ca massive disaster out there with people\u2019s lives.\u201d They argue that, on economic issues, Obama still has trouble connecting with voters, particularly those from the white working class.<\/p>\n<p>And make no mistake about it, GOP strategy for 2012 will start with the white working<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/06\/20\/249061\/chart-taxes-economic-growth\/ It&#8217;s critical we get the word out on studies like this . . . yesterday, The New Republic\u00a0 reported on the\u00a0possibility of the white working class vote swinging more Republican than in the 2008 election and we need to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=60\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news-dc","category-political-news-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}