Look Over There, A Kitten…
McClatchy reports on the travails of our Republican candidate for governor under those “socialists” in Washington that he is always complaining about: Rick Scott’s tax returns show Florida GOP candidate thriving under Obama
TALLAHASSEE — Rick Scott blames President Barack Obama for the nation’s economic woes, but Florida’s Republican nominee for governor is doing far better now than he did under the last year of George W. Bush’s presidency.
That’s according to Scott’s last three years of tax returns, which portray a man who, like more and more out-of-work Floridians, earns no wages.
But unlike most of the state’s 1 million unemployed workers, Scott earns millions from a long list of investments.
Scott’s adjusted gross income in 2009 was $7.87 million, more than double what he made in 2008 during Bush’s last year in office. Not only did his income grow under Obama, he paid less in federal taxes — 13 percent — than he did the previous year when Uncle Sam took 16 percent.
But everyone knows that the facts have a liberal bias. Just because the stock market consistently does better when there is a Democrat in the White House is no reason to think that there might be a connection.
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“Just because the stock market consistently does better when there is a Democrat in the White House is no reason to think that there might be a connection.”
We might be able to answer that question experimentally, if in fact we had a Democrat in the White House…
Joe Biden is a Democrat…
Yeah, it will be interesting to see if all that’s required is the label, and actual policies are irrelevant.