Most Misleading Headline Ever?

In their ongoing effort to persuade the public to quit whinging about higher taxes the Dead Tree NY Times delivers a misleading headline for the record books:

Complaints Aside, Most Face Lower Tax Burden Than In The Reagan 80's

The text goes on to compare the total Federal, state and local tax burden in 1980 with that of 2010, which prompts a question - when did Reagan take office and launch his first round of tax cuts? 1981, yes? Surely the Times editors remember the timing of the Descent of Darkness.

So maybe a better headline would be "Taxes Lower than in the Carter Era", which would deliver a less surprising message and make a less compelling case that we are currently under-taxed.

I infer that the Times editors have realized their problem. Online, the current headline is:

Complaints Aside, Most Face Lower Tax Burden Than in 1980

No kidding - most face a lower burden than in 1980, when everyone felt over-taxed.  We can spot the evolution (or is it intelligent design?) of their headline by way of the website URL (my emphasis):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/us/most-americans-face-lower-tax-burden-than-in-the-80s.html

Welcome back, Carter.

ERRATA: The CBO calculates the total Federal tax burden, including imputed corporate taxes. For the three lower quintiles of earners the Reagan years were not so great, tax-wise - the cut in the Federal income tax was roughly offset by the increase in the Social Security tax.

Finding the total Federal, state and local burden back to 1980 has me stumped just now, although this Tax Foundation report reaches back to 1991.

 

Comments

[narciso]

Interesting, in this context, in the Latell book,
they relate an account by DGI agent, Aspillaga,
indicated that he knew of a penetration of the cIA, by that same agency, as early as the mid 80s, now this was long before Myers came to light, at State, or Belen Montes at DIA, so one wonders who that was.

[Threadkiller]

"WASHINGTON D.C. - Though resident of the District of Columbia are denied the right to voting Representation in Congress and to control their local affairs – rights all other United States citizens enjoy – the residents of the District of Columbia have been exclusively granted by Congress a right no non-District of Columbia resident possesses: The right to a post-election challenge to the qualifications for office of any elected official. That statutorily-granted legal “standing” to challenge qualifications is found at D.C. Code §11-1001.11(b)(1).

Accordingly, Montgomery Blair Sibley has this day filed a Petition for Review in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals seeking to challenge the qualifications of Barack Hussein Obama, II to occupy the Office of President of the United States. Additionally, Mr. Sibley has filed an Omnibus Motion in that matter seeking subpoenas for Mr. Obama’s: (i) original birth certificates, (ii) Selective Service and Social Security records, (iii) college applications and transcripts from Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School and (iv) his passport records – all documents Obama has refused to reveal. Mr. Sibley said: “What has he got to hide? I must say in my experience where there is smoke, there is usually fire. I think the public has a right to know the truth.”

The Code: http://montgomeryblairsibley.com/library/DCCode11001.pdf

The link:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-lawsuit-seeks-obamas-records.html

[narciso]

Some people, think themselves, too clever by half, Littell whose output after the Company, was somewhat substandard, posits a theory in his latest, Young Philby, that he was an MI-6 agent inside the KGB, and not the other way around, now first of all that's not new, Allbeury presented that notion about 30 years ago, and
it seems to go against type.

[peter]

so much to digest here, I can only focus on the trivial. Sad that the Stage deli is closing, so few good Kosher delis still in existence

[Pops]

Notice how the press loves lottery winners this week and they are the evil rich next week?

[pagar]

"penetration of the cIA, by that same agency, as early as the mid 80s,"

With stories such as:

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/who-checked-out-leon-panetta/

and formerCIA Director David Petraeus and his friends,

My guess is that the CIA has had some real penetration problems at levels below the director.

[Porchlight]

Speaking of music and spurred by Jim's earlier question that mentioned libertarians anyone sick of PC "artists" should get some Cracker.

That's interesting - Cracker being the solo project of David Lowery from Camper van Beethoven. I always got the impression CVB were pretty far left, but they did have a lot of funny hippie-skewering lyrics back in the old days, and Lowery is originally from Texas so he's not completely Californian. Camper has now re-formed with the original lineup and they kick more ass than ever.

[Threadkiller]

Jimmy, here is a search engine for social security numbers:

http://socialsecuritynumerology.com/

I wonder what it will tell you about your dad's number.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--For instance... FAA was very casual about 747 fixes after the 'official story' and the airlines and Boeing didn't seem very concerned about liability. Strange... no?

Posted by: NK | November 30, 2012 at 05:55 PM--

Being in the AF on KC 135s doesn't make me an expert but I've crawled around in a center fuel tank or two. Any ground personnel are required to reach down and touch any of the numerous grounds embedded in flightlines when approaching any airplane and every plane has to have one or more mechanical grounds attached to those ground points while parked.
Fuel vapor is a known danger in half filled and empty tanks.
There was little to fix since the most likely culprit was determined to be a short circuit heating wiring in a vapor filled tank. As long as there are wires and fuel on planes there will be no way to eliminate the possibility of a short circuit igniting fuel vapor, no matter how uncommon it is.

[narciso]

This was the piece I got that tidbit from, pagar;

http://www.worldtribune.com/2012/07/03/new-book-on-cubas-dgi-castro-knew-about-jfks-assassination-in-advance/

I had strong reservations about Pannetts from the start, and I didn't know the Delacey connection, just his record on OMB, and statements agaist interrogation,

[Captain Hate]

Camper van Beethoven did at least one album with Eugene Chadbourne, who is as big a flaming lefty as you can get.

[Extraneus]

I've been kicking some ass on guitar these days, if I may say so. Almost ready to retire to Bourbon Street and take up a life of debauchery before I'm too old to enjoy it.

I call it Plan B.

[Spending cuts first!--jimmyk]

Notice how the press loves lottery winners this week and they are the evil rich next week?

The irony being of course that lottery winners really are just lucky, whereas the evil rich mostly earned their wealth through hard work and sacrifice. The press hates them because they are examples of capitalist success, much as they hate conservative women and blacks. Not convenient for their world view.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I always got the impression CVB were pretty far left, but they did have a lot of funny hippie-skewering lyrics back in the old days...--

I remember them being given some platinum record award or another at their studio or home or some place and causing a bit of a stir because they had a couple of rifles on the wall when they did and said things decidedly un PC regarding guns causing the vapors in the intrepid pussy reporters.

[Spending cuts first!--jimmyk]

I wonder what it will tell you about your dad's number.

"The highest group number (the middle two digits) that has been issued for 042 is 13."

Yet my father's group number is higher than that. Not too helpful.

Next time I see him in person, I'll ask him if he remembers getting his number. (For those keeping score at home, he has an 042 number despite never having lived in CT, like someone else we all know.)

[Threadkiller]

420 is Alabama with a "highest group number" of 63.

Are you going off of a SocSec card, Jimmy? Could the number have been transposed some time ago?

I do wonder.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Notice how the press loves lottery winners this week and they are the evil rich next week?

No! No! No! Winning money is grand, earning money is evil.

There is one exception. If you have earned money before you win money, you are doubly evil.

[Melinda Romanoff]

narciso-

Pannetta's association with Turkel's friends is well known, here at least.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

So does that make you unnaturally born jimmy?

[Clarice]

CH:I'm confused by your 6:59, Clarice; are you saying you still believe the official story or have subsequently become skeptical of it? The seeming lack of subsequent liability concerns over it and how other planes could be impacted that NK mentioned also triggered my BS detectors.

That was my initial thought. Now, I'm not so sure. As for the NTSB, I'm thinking more about the forensic teams employed there who always struck me as thorough and methodical. In fact. I seem to recall reading a New Yorker article about their work.

[narciso]

No, we can't make the same assumption, about you, Mikey;

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/30/fiscal-cliff-fictions-lets-all-agree-to-pretend-the-gop-isnt-full-of-it/

[Spending cuts first!--jimmyk]

Iggy, I defer to TK on all such matters.

On TWA 800: "The seeming lack of subsequent liability concerns...."

I don't know--was there a big settlement with the victims' families in exchange for not pursuing damages? Who paid it?

[narciso]

Schreiber, besides being a journolist, is a particularly obtuse one,

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/wishful-thinking-on-republican-wishful-thinking/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Let's give Barry the benefit of the doubt and assume he gets every bit of his $1.6 Trillion in tax increases over 10 years and not one person takes any steps to reduce their taxes and the economy suffers no ill effects.
Now let's assume, insanely, that spending will not simply be slowed but will somehow actually be frozen.
That takes the deficit from around $1.2 trillion to a little over $1 Trillion.

What are Barry and the Dems full of if the GOP is full of "it"?

[Threadkiller]

If Jimmy's birth certificate has 19 or fewer layers it's good enough for me.

[Danube of Thought on IPad]

"Maybe you and DoT think I am incapable because you don't take the time to read what I contribute."

TK, I have read and responded in detail to everything you contributed to the NBC issue. I pointed out in good faith the flaws in the "analysis" of Leo Donofrio, a dishonest and deranged former lawyer. At each and every turn you simply repeated Donofrio's nutty assertions. You asked me innumrable questions; so far as I know I answered every one of them. You ignored every answer I gave, and after a while you asked the same questions again. This pattern has been repeated time and again.

You now propose that I, or other lawyers here, read some lengthy consent decree, and answer your questions about that decree. I won't do so.

[narciso]

I notice a lot of allegations, and a witness who was commissioned by Obama's future campaign counsel, some memo that may or not have existed,
it's bleeding by a thousand cuts

http://brennan.3cdn.net/55c542f8931183a71e_43m6i2q5b.pdf

[daddy]

Good Morning!

Last night I posted a comment about how if they remade the movie "Ninotchka" the new story line would be that the American Capitalist gets converted to Communism by Garbo, rather than the Communist Garbo getting converted to Capitalism.

So just arrive at the international hotel, turn on the BBC News, and the headline story is "Did Marx have it right after all?"

The blonde Talking head shows a few clips of Marx statues, makes a couple comments negative about the current state of Capitalism, and reiterates "Was Marx right?" Looks like that will be their top of the hour Headline News grabber for the near future.

[Clarice]

Some new and interesting developments in the Trayvon Martin case:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-george-zimemrman-crump-trayvon-girlfriend-20121130,0,4647925.story

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/os-george-zimmerman-jose-baez-serino-20121130,0,2270309,full.story

[narciso]

THis appelate opinion, is equally lacking, full of tautologies, do we ever get to the issue of why Malone, et al, might have been included on that list, other than his race,

http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/rncvdnc.pdf

[Danube of Thought on IPad]

"I won't do so."

I'll go further: I will not read, nor comment upon, anything that is attributed to a site called "Obamareleaseyourrecords," which is on a par with Donofrio's "Natural Born Citizen" site.

[narciso]

I noted the last piece, earlier, in ironic counterpart to Baez's obfuscations,

Marx was sort of the slimmer Michael Moore of the mid 19th century, and that actually does insult Marx, he was a better journalist, but he took a survey of labor conditions, and had an 'underpants gnome' leap to revolution, something
Lenin, tried to bridge by introducing 'the vanguard'

[RichatUF (at my secret, undisclosed location)]

Evening all. Still catching up.

[narciso]

Well, as long as all reasonable approaches are made;

http://twitchy.com/2012/11/30/rep-hank-johnson-slams-gop-immigration-reform-vote-as-the-ugly-head-of-racism/

[RichatUF (at my secret, undisclosed location)]

Wasn't he the guy who was worried that Guam would tip over?

We've elected geniuses to the house and senate.

[Danube of Thought on IPad]

"Wasn't he the guy who was worried that Guam would tip over?"

You got it. He also called a couple of days ago for a constitutional amendment denying corporations the right to free speech. No word yet from the New York Times Co., Time-Warner et al.

[Threadkiller]

No big loss for me, DoT.

[Clarice]

DoT, I remember the incredulous look on a women seeking signatures on a petition to overturn Citizens United when I explained that without that case onl newspaper owners had the right to free speech. She understood the NYT and WaPo were corporations but somehow believed that before Citizens they were subject to the same muzzling as all other corporations.

Unofrunately, I didn't have my SCAM book of investment opportunities with me that day.

[Threadkiller]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db1YQGLt5vE&feature=player_embedded

[narciso]

It is the Cynthia McKinney seat (D, Insane) so it's par for the course, but it's right along with what FCC zampolit, Mark Lloyd, the fan of
'the wonderful Democratic revolution of Chavez' would recommend,

[narciso]

Ay yay yay, not too mention, Viacom, who gives us 'the truthiness' of Colbert, and the 'real news' of Stewart, 'which only when needs must'

[Clarice]

I thought the name Montgomery Blair Sibley (all famous names in this town) was familiar. Here's a story about this disbarred counsel from 2007:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050302233.html

[narciso]

The likes of Sy Hersh among others, savaged this fellow, who was a protege of Bernard Lewis,

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3472/hamas-sunni-shiite

[Porchlight]

I can definitely see the Camper guys - Lowery at any rate - being part of the left/libertarian/un PC/Ron Paul nexus.

[Clarice]

The entire article on Sibley is great--but I love this--(He's definitely in the Donofrio class):

"Something is amiss here, and we haven't even gotten to the part where he sued the U.S. Supreme Court for treason (twice!), asking for $1 million in damages. Or that he spent 77 days in a Miami jail for refusing to pay child support. Or that Maryland has stopped him from running a law office in the state. Or that federal prosecutors in Palfrey's case say Sibley's filings are so ignorant of basic legal tenets that they are "almost incoherent."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Hey Porch,
I didn't realize Lowery is a math stud, quant guy dabbling in derivatives and such.
Not your average rock hound.
Kind of like Brian May with Queen; guitarist and astrophysicist.
Weird.

[narciso]

Yes, unfortunately, maybe he can get together with Gwenyth Todd and compare genealogies

http://hopesaudacity.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/montgomery-blair-sibley-a-collateral-victim/

[Melinda Romanoff]

Ig-

Or Brian May, unrepentant deer culler.

No invites. Not one. He's going to pay for that.

[Danube of Thought on IPad]

"No big loss for me, DoT."

Of course not. You only pay heed to lawyers who support the firm conclusions you reached before you ever asked them anything.

Have you ever doubted a single assertion Leo Donofrio has made about the NBC clause?

[Gus]

Do any of my JOM friends recall my term for what LIBTARDS were going to do? I've said it for 4 years plus, and I've mentioned it in the last year since I returned here.

I said that they had backed themselves into a corner, with no way out, no way out other than admitting failure. I said they were gong to go.....
THE FULL COMMIE. They have.

[daddy]

Oh, If only Brian May had let Denali Wolves eat his deer:

Researchers count just 57 Denali wolves

[narciso]

Well it's in keeping with his suckup to Suha Arafat;

http://twitchy.com/2012/11/30/hillary-clinton-criticizes-israel-for-lack-of-empathy-with-palestinians/

[Melinda Romanoff]

daddy-

They made it down here just fine, thankyouverymuch.

[Gus]

Brian May is one hell of a guitarist. His land management skills need not be explained to the public.

[Melinda Romanoff]

And I presume they're close to grey's.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Gus-

Brian complained about the badger cull over there. They were calling him out on the hypocrisy. Guess which species is a bit over fed.

[daddy]

hillary-clinton-criticizes-israel-for-lack-of-empathy

Well narciso,

If I'm reading this story correctly, New Islamist Constitution Brings Back Slavery to Egypt, then Israeli's can be sold into slavery just like Joseph. That'll empathize 'em.

Why it's 1200 BC all over again!

[Gus]

Melinda, you know that I am a BADGER. If Brian May hurts one hair on a Badger, I'll send his to a reunion with Freddie.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Get in line, Dinsdale.

[RichatUF (at my secret, undisclosed location)]

And I presume they're close to grey's.

This turing into and aliens and ufos thread.

[Gus]

DINSDALE!! DINSDALE!!!

DINSDALE!!

Dinsdale.

[RichatUF (at my secret, undisclosed location)]

gus-

...and over the cliff we go.

[Melinda Romanoff]

daddy-

No, we're going full circle in defining why we need a capable Navy and Marine Corps. I don't think iBama's going to waste time paying ransom for the next 100 years or so to the New and Improved Barbary Pirates.

The Aubrey and Maturin stories may be relived, if they get their wish.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Rich-

You've had too much coffee. Are you on the Mon-Sat night stretch or Sun-Thurs run?

[Gus]

Melinda, Obama is a confirmed Marxist. Nothing more. He is truly an idiot with no clue what he is doing. Other than destruction for Marxist purposes, Obama hasn't a clue.

[daddy]

This just might be the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread!

[RichatUF (in my Cold War era bomb shelter)]

Mel-

Scheduling problems 12 on/12 off Mon-Sat. Just spitballing...grey's=aliens's...the truth is out there.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Simpler than that. Permanent power.

[Danube of Thought on IPad]

If the Aubrey/Maturin stories are to be relived, all I ask is to be right in the thick of them.

The bottle stands by you, sir.

[Gus]

Daddy, what is the shelf life of Soylent Green?

[RichatUF (in my Cold War era bomb shelter)]

and yes, I've had way too much coffee.

[Melinda Romanoff]

I know they're a mix, especially with the coyote count around here, so I suppose "alien" isn't a bad tag.

Still can't shoot them around here.

[Threadkiller]

DoT, yes I have doubted plenty of Donofrio's claims. That is why I did independent research.

Remember when you fucked up and asserted that Vattel was unknown/unused/in French and various other reasons(made up by you to impress Clarice that the founders never consulted his Law of Nations?

Without Donofrio's help I posted Ben Franklin's letter thanking some clown for sending several copies of Vattel's Law of Nations to their congress because they were useful for such a young nation. I also posted a link that showed a copy of Vattel's Law of Nations was in Washington's personal library.

You did not acknowledge that you learned something from me, but, thankfully, you shut up for two days.

When you came back you announced that you would not touch the "birther" subject anymore.

Do you still think the Law of Nations was of no use to the Founders?

Please talk about Donofrio instead.

[Threadkiller]

I forgot one of these:")"

Put it wherever you want.

[Gus]

Coyotes here in greater Oconomowoc are clearly not afraid of me. YET.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Orders must be cut to do so, sir. I fear those in power fear the ink for them more. Therein lies the true risk of the future, perhaps they prefer ownership?

[Melinda Romanoff]

And the bottle shall be passed to the left 'til emptied....

Who's next?

[Threadkiller]

I posted this many times:

people.mags.net/tonchen/birthers.htm

only to here that Saint Danube won't be bothered with anything that has "birther" in the link.

Ghey...

[Gus]

I'll have a swig.

[daddy]

what is the shelf life of Soylent Green?

In Chicken it'd last all winter.

US National Weather Service sez:

"The first 50 below of the season was reported this morning in Chicken, Alaska. Persistent high pressure over mainland Alaska is keeping conditions clear and calm throughout the Interior, allowing for cold air aloft to settle in the valleys. Cold temperatures are expected to persist through the weekend, and may even become colder early next week if the clouds stay away."

Brrrrrr.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Yer to the right. Learn the protocol for port.

[Gus]

Yes, port is left.
Daddy, Soylent Green "IS PEOPLE" it is not CHICKEN.

[Captain Hate]

She understood the NYT and WaPo were corporations but somehow believed that before Citizens they were subject to the same muzzling as all other corporations.

This and the caller to Rush who didn't know that taxes finance the government, have me wondering whether to blame the schools or the parents more for producing such dunces about basic principles of how thing work.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Gus-

Port Protocol.

And it's so you can grab a stab at the Stilton, IMO.

[narciso]

From this account from the Dhimmi broadcasting channel, it seems they went splunge;

The new Article 73 says: "Enforced employment, slavery and sex trade are deemed acts punishable by law." The draft does not not include a clear ban on human trafficking or an obligation to adhere to international rights treaties.

[Gus]

Taxes fund the goverment? When did this happen?

[Threadkiller]

here=hear

goodnight

[Captain Hate]

errrrr things work.

This PAC championship game has gotten pretty good.

[Gus]

Capn, the Badgers have a rematch with Nebraska tomorrow. We might have 3 Rose Bowl losses in a row. We'd have to change our name to the WISCONSIN BILLS.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Done playing.

G'night all. I hope I can sleep at some time in the near future.

[Gus]

Stanford vs Wisconsin or Nebraska.

[Clarice]

Night, Mel.

[Captain Hate]

Gus, Stanford has done an amazing job of losing their HOF quarterback and genius head coach and still winning games. Plus they're one of the few schools that the alumni don't get steamed at students for not packing the stadium because they're busy studying.

[narciso]

That's a tough hat trick to pull off, Captain, that indicates it has a strong bench,

[Gus]

Capn, when my brother was bodyguarding Condoleeza Rice, specifically in the 6 months following her term as Sec State, they were in Palo Alto most of the time. My bro got to know Jim Harbaugh. A f@#$ing Wolverine and Chicago Bear. My brother liked him. Harbaugh is now in the BIG MONEY, and Stanford soldiers on, with REAL LIVE STUDENT ATHLETES!! Having said that, I'd love to see the BADGERS go out to Pasadena and whip the Stanford "Cardinal".

[Captain Hate]

Harbaugh used to be on the Colts too, no? I remember him getting the hell beat out of him against the Stoolers playing the type of thug ball that would probably make Goodell autistic while still trying to suck up to his butt buddy Rooney.

[Gus]

Goodell is not autistic, he has Down Syndrome.

[narciso]

No, don't insult those with Down Syndrome, he's a jackass, a nattering nabob of nullity, a

[Gus]

Narciso, I wasn't insulting anyone except Goodell.
I am very active in Down Syndrome Association funding. Saying Roger Goodell has Down Syndrome, does not denigrate those who do.

[Captain Hate]

Yes, the people with Down's Syndrome that I've met have been very nice people, which I'd never use as a description of that jackhole Goodell.