Democrat Rep. Gwen Moore’s Defends Obamacare Job Losses In CBO Report: “People Don’t Want A Promotion, Because They Will Pay More Taxes”…

07 Feb, 2014 by John Hawkins

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Democrat Gwen Moore has never had a real job in the private sector in her entire life and it shows.

Then you have Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), who appeared virtually incoherent Thursday on MSNBC while trying to explain away “pathetic” Republicans accurately quoting the CBO.

After insisting that 10 million have benefited from the ACA – a figure that is impossible to verify and leads one to conclude she simply made it up – Moore went on to paraphrase the New York Times editorial board which called the federally-funded incentives for people not to work and be supported by those who do “liberating.”

“You could say people don’t want a promotion, because if they make more money they’ll have to pay more taxes,” Moore said in false equivalence. This makes sense only to those who do not currently pay income taxes on their wages — which may, in fact, be her intended audience.

A raise, an incentive to work or a reward for hard work, is the precise opposite of a disincentive to work, like being provided taxpayer-funded subsidies which terminate after reaching a certain income threshold. Furthermore, getting a raise that bumps one to a higher income tax bracket does not mean the recipient of that raise will lose money. It means their new earnings and only the new earnings are taxed at a higher rate. This hypothetical person will always make more money after a raise.

“The Republicans are just so determined that they would come up with any stupid economic argument they can,” she concluded with a bit of psychological projection.

Yes, the woman who just said people don’t want to get promotions because they’ll pay more in taxes says Republicans come up with “stupid economic” arguments. Well, okay then. The more you listen to Democrats like Moore, the more you conclude Democrats want to see as many Americans as possible poor, broke and dependent on the government.

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