Hilarious

Andrew Sullivan and the Heritage Foundation identify "ten myths" about the Bush tax cuts, including the particularly insidious myth that revenue reductions mean that "Tax revenues remain low." On the contrary! As Heritage points out, "Tax revenues are above the historical average, even after the tax cuts." I wonder, did they calculate the average dating back to independence in 1776 or only back to the constitution taking effect in 1789? In related developments, a twelve inch black and white television has better picture quality than a player piano and our troops in Iraq are only insufficiently equipped if you forget that the historical average indicates that soldiers typically rely on horse-drawn transportation.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/01/hilarious/41328/