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i want to put up on the screen for you what is the most receptive foxnews graph
in recent history
that i can remember
let's take a look at this thing lewis
but if bush tax cuts expire okay this is a graphic boxes put together to show
what would happen to the top tax rate the top marginal tax rate if the bush
tax cuts expired i have to take a look at the quick glance here you see now on
the left a tiny little sliver of a graph and on the right you see if they expire
january first two twenty thirteen look at that huge increase lewis i mean it
looks like it's five times as baby think it shocking how much taxes will go up
the bush tax cuts expires in a it isn't easy now let's look at the feel of this
you would think if you're talking about a tax rate you would have a scale that
goes from what zero too wide
exactly and then if you see such a big increase clearly were much closer to a
hundred and we are zero well now the scale compared
starts at thirty four then it goes up to forty two for some reason lives and
income
on this spectrum brightbox is is is i decided that to be most accurate if the
letter just report and what you decide
they'll zoom in unjust eight percentage points between thirty four and forty two
on the scale
and as you can see that huge incredible increase that looks to be about four
five times as big on the right actually represent four point six percentage
points behind bill clinton i think you're looking at this the wrong way
foxnews knows that it's you were there still well informed
that they're gonna be able to take this new ones graph and understand it for
what it really is always that right
i have nothing to add to this
so or point five percent increase looks like a ninety percent increase to five p
reserve maybe even a five hundred percent increase to five period
sounds about right and i hate to say it but a lot of fox news viewers will
accept this and i'll go out as they did you see that graphic incredible it but
that top tax rate expires
it just can explode the tax tax rate again explode
awaited four point six percentage points on the
the top marginal tax rate
release of the stuff right
yeah i mean it still
factory accurate craft
it's just
composed in a way that
previously people if they don't pay attention to how do you respond to that
the time to read what lewis is saying which is it's an interesting point it
actually the graph is not misrepresenting anything it says the
scale is from thirty eight to forty two what have you cannot i think it's pretty
clear that when these graphs are shown to people on t_v_ especially the type of
your that watches fox news
the point of it is to get across to us a main message a very simple method to
this email using endeavor's communicates the opposite message to the one that
reflects reality absolute
no question about it