Newsweek piece 'doesn't add up' [Scam at Newsweek]

Washington Times ^ | Apr 10, 2004 | editorial

[The Raven]

With a gigantic IRS 1040 income-tax form covering a slightly ajar door presumably leading to a room filled with tightly guarded information, the headline of Newsweek's current cover story screams: "The Dirty Little Secret of the Tax Cut: Why It's Smaller Than You Think." Inside, the article greets the reader with the bold assertion: "Why Your Tax Cut Doesn't Add Up." But the only thing that doesn't add up is the article itself. It is replete with misstatements and distortions masquerading as the real-life experiences of Americans since President Bush's tax cuts were enacted in 2001 and 2003.

[MosesKnows]

“Once we perverted our democracy in 1913 with a constitutional amendment permitting an income tax, we set about enslaving our most productive citizens.”

In the interest of accuracy the original Constitution had already granted the Congress the power to levy an income tax.

Article 1 Section 8 - The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

However, the Constitution forbid the congress from directly taxing the citizen.

Article 1 Section 9 - No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

The 16th Amendment in 1913 added the power to tax the citizen directly.

Article. XVI. [Proposed 1909; Questionably Ratified 1913]

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

With that added power and the ensuing 17th Amendment the Constitutional experiment as envisioned by the framers of the Constitution had no chance of succeeding.

[mtbopfuyn]

Our went up considerably but I'm not complaining because over all Bush has cut taxes. It's ridiculous how the media has run out of real problem areas that they are resorting to total lies. I've heard from older life long RATS who have seen the light and are turned off of from all the baloney and are voting Republican this time. Let the media keep it up and Nader will leave Kerry in his dust.

[Agnes Heep]

I don't credit any "study" that bases its conclusions on anecdotal evidence. That's what this piece obviously has done. It's facile enough for some half-wit to say "Duh, I didn't see any savings." But it's the responsibility of those who are using his testimony to verify its truth.

[chiller]

...btt

[imfleck]

Be nice, I read Time, or rather, I look at the pretty pictures and graphs.

[MizSterious]

*The "revived" public Media Schadenfreude and and Media Shenanigans list.

[Mercat]

I'm printing out this article and stapling it to the copy of Newsweek in my reception room. I know, I should just throw out the rag. I don't subscribe to it, my landlord's wife does and she's the receptionist. She's a big lib. I don't want to create too huge a confrontation. I think making this article available will be enough.

[dead]

Newsweek should publish their pictures in black and white, so their dumbass readers have something to color.

Thanks Washington Times for a great, fact-filled rubuttal.

[paulsy]

I READ this article last night when I was at Barnes and Noble. I was scratching my head. Though I know Newsweek is a propaganda rag, I was still surprised because their campaigning was so blatant. My family has saved something like $9000 in taxes over the past three years. The article is just flat wrong and Newsweek REALLY needs to be called to task for this.

TIME also ran a economy piece (or something, I can't remember the specifics) that was trying to "come across" as objective in it's reporting. But within a paragraph or two, it was slamming Bush in subtle ways, and outright lying in what it said. The article went very soft on Kerry.

Then I picked up another publication, something the New York Times put out about retirement. The first chapter I opened to was about the need for a "national healthcare system" - it too was extremely left.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but it seems like this propaganda is EVERYWHERE. I'm looking at Yahoo online. Their news headers and articles are extremely liberal and more BS.

All this nonesense has its effect on people who have their "facts" filtered through these "credible" news sources. I have a son in Washington State. He's 11. His mother tells me he hates Bush. The first question I asked her, wasn't "why does he hate Bush" but rather "where does he get his information about Bush?". His mother said "CNN" and I said, "no wonder."

[paulsy]

"We get Newsweek but I don't know how or why as we never asked for it nor paid for a subscription"

Someone is probably paying for your subscription as a "gift" - Maybe find out who it is and tell them to stop spamming you with leftist propaganda.

[chiller]

Thank you Washington Times! These slimes must be exposed far and wide. Disgusting.

I hope the Times and the WSJ expand on these 3 families in front page stories to further expose Newsweak.

[chiller]

"Maybe I'm paranoid, but it seems like this propaganda is EVERYWHERE."

Send the bastards a lesson in November that we're not buying their crap.

Talk radio was first, then the internet, then Fox News. They'll learn eventually as each of these 3 continue to grow and come to dominate, while they wither. Chin up, it's happening, if slowly.

[Smokin' Joe]

You cannot petition a democrat with logic. It hurts their minds.

Briefly. Then the circuit breakers trip, logical function shuts down, and the real babbling begins, usually with increasing volume and levels of detectable vocal stress...

[Howlin]

Maybe I'm paranoid, but it seems like this propaganda is EVERYWHERE

You're not paranoid.

[RedEyeJack]

Agree. A great story on how these people were interviewed and what they really said and thought versus what was in the article. An editor somewhere at Newsweek needs to be slapped hard for allowing this to be published as the truth.

[SW6906]

BTTT Expose the left!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good find!

Why such ignorance and lies from a supposed independent and "responsible press"? ... He asked rhetorically.

Have you sent this to MRC.ORG - They analyze and report media bias.

[alnick]

My wife attended college in Massachusetts, and was informed there that she WOULD read Newsweek..and that was a long, long time ago, now. It's just part of the institution...the Left's Little Red Book.

I took an English Comp course at UNO back in the late '70s taught by a flaming lib, who later became a regular commentator on our local PBS station. He required us to read Newsweek and write a composition based on one of the stories every week. He and I went round and round that year because I would argue with him about various political comments he would make. I wasn't even interested in politics back then, but I knew a lie when I heard one.

[torchthemummy]

Speaking of Time Magazine, I'll never forget about a year ago (or maybe shortly after the 2002 election ass-kicking, how Joe Klein (Primary Colors) had a front cover piece called, roughly, "What's Wrong With The Democratic Party? (And How They Can Fix It)"

I wasn't amazed so much as po'd.

[an amused spectator]

Why Your Tax Cut Doesn't Add Up was written by Allan Sloan, Ari Berman, Elizabeth Macbride, Jamie Reno and Robina Riccitiello as a "cockroach journalism" piece for Newsweek.

Wonderful Post-News Media World editorial by the Washington Times.