Debunk This!, Shattering Liberal Lies

✍ Scribed by Matt Palumbo

• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Countless studies have proven that over 90 percent of Trump-related news coverage is negative, and the percentage of journalists that identify as Republicans are in the single digits. When liberals are running the show, you can bet that their narrative has gone unchallenged. If you tell a lie long enough people will begin to believe it, and that’s certainly the case with so many liberal myths that have become accepted as conventional wisdom.

In this book you’ll learn, among many other facts:

What happened to non-gun mass killings when Australia enacted strict gun control.
The truth about “Scandinavian socialism.”
How Obama twisted the numbers to appear tough on immigration.
Why Mexico has stricter immigration laws than the US.
How Bill Clinton faked the “Clinton surplus.”
That the US doesn’t have the majority of the world’s mass shootings.
Why statistics claiming that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than the general public are bogus.
The countless lies the media simply made up about the Trump administration.

If you’re in need of ammunition to shoot down liberal lies, this is the book for you.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Economic Myths
Scandinavian “Socialism”
Why Do People Call Scandinavia “Socialist”?
The Poor Face Massive Tax Burdens in Scandinavia
Scandinavians Perform Better Economically in America Than in Scandinavia
Scandinavia Is Wealthy Despite Their Welfare States, Not Because of Them
Economic Performance in Sweden Has Improved as Their Government Has Shrunk
Income and Wealth Inequality in Scandinavia
Social Program Performance—“Free” College
The Bizarre Case of Free College and Crippling Student Debt
Social Program Performance—“Free” Health Care
Wait Time Statistics
Is Scandinavia Even Socialist?
Heritage Foundation 2018 Study
Fraser Institute 2018 Study
Scandinavian Leaders Deny “Socialist Slurs”
Socialist Damage Control on Venezuela
Venezuela Was “Real Socialism” Until It Wasn’t
The Reagan Deficits
Defense Spending and the Deficit
Inflation and the Deficit
The Recession of 1980–1982
Conclusion
Red State Welfare
Do We Need a $15 Minimum Wage to Prevent Full-Time Workers From Living in Poverty?
Does the US Lead the World in Child Poverty?
The Cost of Illegal Immigration
Birthright Citizenship Is the Biggest Cost of Illegal Immigration
The Overlooked Cost of Health Care for Illegals
Do Illegal Immigrants Pay Taxes?
How Bill Clinton Faked the Clinton Surplus
Did We Used to Tax the Rich at 90 Percent?
Debunking Four Crazy Cortez Ideas
What’s an Unemployment Rate?
The Federal Jobs Guarantee
The Assault Weapons Ban
Housing (or Any Service) as a Human Right
California–Model for America?
The Cost of Living Brings California’s Incomes Below the National Average—and Puts Them #1 in Poverty and #3 in Homelessness
California’s Public Investments Are Underperforming
Blue State vs. Red State Economic Performance
Blue State Inequality
Are 97 Percent of the Poorest Counties Really Republican?
Corporate Myths–Tax, Wages, and CEO Pay
Was the US Corporate Tax High or Low?
Corporate Profits: History, Wages, Workers
Corporate Tax’s Effects on Wages and Growth
CEO to Worker Pay—Three Hundred to One?
The Problem with Warren’s Wealth Tax
Media Myths
Did Trump Cause a Surge in Hate Crimes?
More Agencies Reported Hate Crimes in 2017
The Hate Crime “Surge” Began in 2014
The Initial Hate Crime “Surge” Was Due to an Increase in Anti-White Hate Crimes
Apartments and the Minimum Wage–or, How to Lie Poorly with Statistics
Are Federal Employees Underpaid?
Public Sector vs. Private Sector Pay
Hotel California Economics
And About That Federal Pay Freeze…
Does the Fourteenth Amendment Protect Birthright Citizenship?
Is Birthright Citizenship a Misinterpretation of the Fourteenth?
Nineteenth-Century Legal Interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment
Has the GOP Gone Extreme?
Is the American Dream Dead?
How Mobile Is the US?
Is the US Less Mobile Than Europe?
Is Mobility on the Decline?
Is the Senate Rigged Toward Republicans?
The Senate Has Historically Been Dominated by Democrats
How to Lie with Statistics: Islamic vs. Right-Wing Terror Edition
The Real Reason the Kansas Tax Cuts Failed
What Do the Critics Allege?
Tax Cuts vs. Poorly Designed Tax Cuts
Kansas’s Economy Mainly Suffered Because of Oil Prices, Not Tax Changes
Who Has Stricter Immigration Laws–the US or Mexico?
Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests Than the US
Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Nationality
Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants Than the US
Mexico Has Its Own Southern Border—and Invisible Wall
No, Trump Did Not Kick Immigrants Out of the Army
Do Illegal Aliens Really Commit Fewer Crimes?
Illegals in Arizona
Nowrasteh’s Criticism of Arizona Study
Government Studies on Illegal Alien Murder Rates
Nowrasteh’s Criticism of GAO Study
And Let’s Suppose I’m Wrong
Trump’s Tax Cuts Didn’t All Go “to the Rich”
Tax Refund Confusion
Trickle-Down Talking Points
A New Wage Gap Myth–Are Women “Really” Earning Only 49 Cents to a Man’s Dollar?
Is There a Sports Wage Gap Too?
Is There a Gender Debt Gap?
The Pink Tax–Another Feminist Figment
TRUMP VS. OBAMA MYTHS
Is Obama to Thank for the Trump Economy?
Did the Stimulus Work?
The Stimulus Didn’t Meet the Obama Administration’s Own Predictions
Despite Failing, the Real Unemployment Rate Was Still Higher Than Reported
The Speed of the Recovery
Is Obama to Thank for the Trump Stock Market Surge?
Praise Be to Trump–or Obama?
Hilariously Bad Pundit Predictions
US Outperformed International Markets Despite Declining in 2018
Did Obama Deport More Illegal Aliens than Trump?
Has Trump “Foxified” the White House?
Did Obama Pay Iran Ransom Money?
The Official Line of Defense
The Fact that Payment Was in Cash Proves the Events Are Connected
The Payment Is Still Ransom—Even Though It Was Legitimately Owed to Iran Since 1979
Iran Literally Calls the Payments Ransom
A Caravan of Myths About Obamacare’s “Repeal”
Obamacare Didn’t Reduce Health Care Costs
Private Obamacare Insurance Is Glorified Catastrophic Insurance
Most Were Insured Through Medicaid
Trump’s Actions Can’t “Take Away” Anyone’s Health Care
The Individual Mandate Repeal Saved Affected Families a Fortune
Obamacare’s “Repeal” Is Not Killing Forty Thousand-Plus People Per Year
Obama Takes Credit for an Oil Production Boom He Did Everything to Prevent
Oil Production on Federal Land Tanked
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Credits Technology, Not Obama, for the Oil Boom
What About When Oil Prices Fell Under Obama in 2015?
Unlike Obama, Trump is Behind the Recent Price Drop
Who Was Tougher on Russia—Trump or Obama?
Who Was Worse Toward the Press—Trump or Obama?
“The Most Transparent Administration in History”
Prosecuting Journalists
Obama Would’ve Expelled Fox News If He Could’ve
GUN CONTROL MYTHS
Australian Gun Control Facts and Fallacies
Did Gun Control Eliminate Australian Mass Public Shootings?
Non-Gun Mass Killings Offset Mass Shootings
Did Gun Violence Decline in Australia?
Australian Gun Control Wouldn’t Be Possible to Implement in America
Does the US Lead the World in Mass Shootings?
Are Guns “Almost Never” Used in Self-Defense?
The State with the “Craziest Gun Laws” Is Also the Safest
Is the AR-15 Uniquely Dangerous?
Some Notes on the Data
How Many Murders Involve Rifles Like the AR-15?
Conclusion
Did the NRA Help Ban the CDC from Researching Gun Violence?
Endnotes