Economic Reality Check Let's look at the scoreboa

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Economic Reality Check
Let's look at the scoreboard.

"If Republicans are going to continue calling states 'laboratories of democracy,' they're going to have to start looking at the results from the lab," said Bill Maher on Real Time last night before launching into an epic takedown of Republican governance and trickle down economics.

Republicans love to talk about small government, cutting taxes on the rich and shrinking government spending. But what do they have to show for it? In the cases of GOP-led Kansas and Louisiana, they have huge deficits and struggling economies. Liberal-led California, however, is on its way to being the fifth largest economy in the world.
"Thanks, Brexit," Maher snarked, before bragging about how California could soon pass the UK's economy.

"Democrats, from governor on down, control every office and voting body in this state. So we can really study what happens when liberal policies are tried unimpeded. And the only thing I have to say to Republicans about that is: scoreboard, bitches!"

Maher cited California's record-low energy prices and policies of giving driver's licenses and college tuition to undocumented immigrants—policies the GOP say would tank the economy. So, what happened?

"The sky didn't fall, unemployment did. And growth shot up to four percent. And a $26 billion deficit became and $11 billion surplus... And that is mostly because we, horror of horrors, raised taxes on the rich," Maher said.

Mic drop.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a46...democracy/

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