From Maher "Overtime": GOP Strategists Schooled On Republican Lie About Tax Hikes & Entitlement Cuts

[CatWoman]

The best part of Real Time with Bill Maher this past week occurred on the Internet section known as overtime where the a big GOP lie was debunked. An Internet viewer posed the question to the GOP strategist as to whether she would accept the 10 to 1 cuts to revenue. She said no because while the revenues are always raised, it is never followed by cuts.

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Internet Question: Mattie, would you have accepted the ten dollars in spending cuts for every dollar in tax increases that Obama proposed.

Mattie Dupppler: No. Turns out the problem with that deal are that it actually does not exist. This is the unicorn the Democrats keep saying it’s such a great deal why Republicans don’t just take it. We had two examples of when this has actually been tried and has failed. Both President Reagan and first President Bush made these deals with Democrats. They said I would give you one dollar in tax hikes for every two dollars in spending cuts or for Reagan I think it was three dollars in spending cuts. And what happened was these tax hikes were always real the spending restraints never materialized.

Lawrence O’Donnell: Do we have time for the truth? Ok. So here is the thing, forget these deals that you are talking about. Talk about the deal that the Democrats did with the Democrats. With not one Republican vote, 1993, and it was one to one…. The tax increases went into effect and all the spending cuts went into effect; most of them in Medicare by the way. The first the Bill Clinton and the only thing Bill Clinton did with Medicare was cut it his first year. And those were all real cuts. And that is how we got the deficit down with additional cuts that Newt Gingrich forced on Clinton years later; got it down to the point where we actually had projected surpluses, handed over to George Bush which he threw away. So this is a lie that Republicans will never stop telling that we only do the tax increases and we never do the budget cuts….

video at link: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/05/gop-strategists-schooled-on-republican-lie-about-tax-hikes-entitlement-cuts/

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

1. yes, Clinton ended Medicare as we know it

Both his and the Heritage Foundation's dream.

Mattie Duppler is a good guest because she keeps her mouth shut when someone calls out Republican talking point lies.

[LostOne4Ever]

2. Always fun to see one of their myths shredded

Thanks for sharing this!