LOL.... Democrats doing their very best to divide Americans... Those pesky billionaires....
I can remember when #WORSTLAWYEREVER claimed IRS data was "rightwing propaganda."
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/ar...naires_pay_for_nearly_everything_1061642.html
“And it’s paid for by you. No billionaires will fund work like this because there’s no money in it. This is government-funded research to determine how the universe was created and whether we are alone in it. If NASA and JPL were not doing it, it would not be done.” As readers can likely imagine, those are the words of author Dave Eggers. They won’t age well, nor do they make sense now.
Eggers wrote them in the Washington Post in a wildly interesting piece extolling the virtues of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and NASA more broadly. That both do remarkable things is undeniable.
At the same time, Eggers’s opinion piece speaks to the value of the Post fact-checking its contributors to the editorial page every bit as much as they do the politicians routinely featured in the newspaper’s pages. If so, Post-fact checker Glenn Kessler would have called out Eggers’s assertion that “you” pay for JPL, as opposed to billionaires who allegedly only do things that have “money in it.” About the latter, and given Kessler’s D.C. coordinates, he perhaps would have quickly suggested that Eggers Google “David Rubenstein” and “charitable giving.”
From there, Kessler would have referred Eggers to his response last year to one of President Biden’s empty laments about billionaires being undertaxed. Kessler reported that in fact, the 400 richest U.S. taxpayers are relieved of more federal taxes annually than the bottom 70 percent of U.S. taxpayers combined.
I can remember when #WORSTLAWYEREVER claimed IRS data was "rightwing propaganda."
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/ar...naires_pay_for_nearly_everything_1061642.html
“And it’s paid for by you. No billionaires will fund work like this because there’s no money in it. This is government-funded research to determine how the universe was created and whether we are alone in it. If NASA and JPL were not doing it, it would not be done.” As readers can likely imagine, those are the words of author Dave Eggers. They won’t age well, nor do they make sense now.
Eggers wrote them in the Washington Post in a wildly interesting piece extolling the virtues of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and NASA more broadly. That both do remarkable things is undeniable.
At the same time, Eggers’s opinion piece speaks to the value of the Post fact-checking its contributors to the editorial page every bit as much as they do the politicians routinely featured in the newspaper’s pages. If so, Post-fact checker Glenn Kessler would have called out Eggers’s assertion that “you” pay for JPL, as opposed to billionaires who allegedly only do things that have “money in it.” About the latter, and given Kessler’s D.C. coordinates, he perhaps would have quickly suggested that Eggers Google “David Rubenstein” and “charitable giving.”
From there, Kessler would have referred Eggers to his response last year to one of President Biden’s empty laments about billionaires being undertaxed. Kessler reported that in fact, the 400 richest U.S. taxpayers are relieved of more federal taxes annually than the bottom 70 percent of U.S. taxpayers combined.
