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Originally Posted by grumpy247  Bartels found that the real incomes of middle-class families grew more than twice as fast when Democrats were in the White House than when a Republican was president. And for the working poor, their real incomes grew six times as fast under a Democratic president.
Tricke down economics has killed the middle class of this country. It does not work!!!You stated in another thread that you thought you were better of today than 8 years ago...I dont see how.
8 years ago
gas 1.29 a gallon-today 3.67
milk 1.99 gallon-tiday-3.89
flour .59-today 2.29
eggs.89-today 2.49
property tax-1800 today 2600
our income as a family increase in 8 years +almost nothing! |
Do you have a link for that? Assuming it is correct. . .what's the correlation between what they did and the numbers. Most economists will tell you it takes10-20 years to see the actual effects of legislation. Just because the rewards or losses came when a certain person was in the White House doesn't say anything about how those rewards or losses came to be.
ETA: Where'd you get those pricing numbers? They're wrong.
Gas in 2000 was $1.70 ish
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html
Funny that you pick 2000 for milk prices . . .
Following some of the lowest milk prices in the past 20 years
The price of milk has risen because legislation was paseed to save the small dairy farmers.
http://www.allbusiness.com/agricultu...6068041-1.html
Property tax doesn't have anything to do with who's in the White House. That's a state issue.