[tacticalturtle]

Unless he links directly to evidence that backs up what he says, I’ve learned to tune out Robert Reich.

For a guy who is a Rhodes Scholar, a college professor, and a former Secretary of Labor he has a remarkable tendency to leave out qualifying context when making these statements.

He’s smart enough to formulate arguments with the appropriate context and still make it accessible to the general public - but he consistently chooses not to.

A few weeks ago he was trying to compare the “millionaire tax” of my home state of Massachusetts, with the proposed California wealth tax as evidence that the California tax would not cause flight of wealthy taxpayers:

https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/videos/what-really-happens-...

Never once did he mention that the Massachusetts tax is a bog standard conventional tax on income, compared to this new concept of a global total wealth tax.

[ecshafer]

Lies, damned lies and statistics. They are fudging statistics so they arent technically lying but leave out context and stretch definitions to make their point.