I get asked for this sort of thing all the time, and thought I’d put it all in one, convenient place, so the next time someone starts bending your ear about the glories of Reaganomics, tax-and-spend Democrats, or Weber and the Austrian school of economic theory, you can point them to a nice, sleet-frigid shower of reality.

You see, we liberals have this great hole card when it comes to economic policy, which is that while our prescriptions for the economic health of the country may not be 100% right, it is irrefutably a fact that those of conservatives are wrong.

You like charts? I like charts. Here are some charts: 42 of them, in fact. The list is below the image slider.

UPDATE! Here is an accessible annihilation of Hayek, von Mises and their “Austrian School” of economic theory, which really boils down to governments baaaaaaaad (boo! hiss!), and Magic Free Market Pixie Dust gooooooood.

Go read it, it’s informative and fun.

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1. The Top 1%’s Share of Pre-Tax Income
2. Republicans are Responsible for the National Debt
3. The US has a low rate of taxation
4. Federal Income Taxes on Average Families are Historically Low
5. Corporate Taxes are Historically Low
6. Effective Tax Rates on the Wealthy Have Fallen Dramatically
7. The Bush Tax Cuts Were Weighted Heavily for the Rich
8. Eliminating Bush Tax Cuts Flattens Debt Growth
9. Tax Expenditures are Bigger than Entitlement Programs
10. Bush Increased Spending by 88%; Obama by 7.2%
11. Private Sector Jobs Have Grown Far Better Under Obama
12. Deficit is Projected to FALL Under Obama
13. Income Increases Flat Since 1979 Except for the Wealthy
14. Capital Gains Are Concentrated Among the Very Wealthy
15. Typical Middle Class Households Pay Higher Tax Rate than Many Wealthy
16. Raising Capital Gains Tax Would Have No Major Effect on the Elderly
17. Obama Scaleback of Bush Tax Cuts Affects Only the Very Wealthy
18. Lower Taxes on Rich Do Not Lead to Job Growth
19. Bush Policies–NOT TARP–Drive Huge Deficit
20. Doing Nothing Would Reduce Deficit by 7.1 Trillion Over 10 Yrs
21. Synopsis–Republican Economic Talking Points Are False
22. Reaganomics Has Killed American Prosperity
23. The End of the Great Prosperity Is Linked to Supply-Side Economics
24. Ryan Budget Raises Taxes on 10x as Many People–Just Not the Rich
25. More than one-third of Families With Children Have Increased Taxes Under Ryan Budget
26. Income Growth, Climbing for Decades, Has Plummeted Since Reagan
27. Nearly All Income Gain Since 1979 Has Been At The Top
28. Nearly All Income Gain Since 1979 Has Been At The Top (2)
29. Productivity Has Jumped, But Pay Fallen
30. Inequality Since 1979 A Sharp Departure from Postwar Prosperity
31. Median Household Incomes Declining
32. Republicans Created Huge National Debt
33. Obama Has Cut Taxes More Than Bush
34. Private Job Gains Smaller Under Republicans
35. Benefits of Increased Productivity Have Not Gone to Middle Class
36. The Poor Pay the HIGHEST Taxes Proportionally
37. Reaganomics Gutted the Middle Class
38. Right to Work States Lose More Manufacturing Jobs
39. Economists Near-Unanimous Stimulus Worked
40. Supply Side Economics Fails By All Measures
41. Average Tax Rates Reduced Most Since 1979 for the Wealthiest
42. Taxes for Wealthy Have Fallen Dramatically