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Project 2025 Propaganda Already Being Pushed In Schools
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3:41Now PlayingA pro-business front group is creating classroom materials for teachers across the country. But these materials won’t teach kids about civics or math – they are teaching them that corporations shouldn’t have to pay taxes. And these materials have been used in over fifteen hundred classrooms so far. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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A pro business front group is creating classroom materials for teachers across the country, but these materials won't teach about civics or math. They're teaching the corporation lingo, the corporation talking points about why high taxes on corporations are so bad for everybody. How it's gonna affect mommy and daddy and children. And they're teaching this in school K through, K one through 12. They're creating this agenda, actually teaching this to kids. Don't tax corporations, it's gonna hurt you.
Yeah. You know, look, I have the utmost respect for teachers in the country. My wife is an educator. I've got other members of my family that are educators. But at the same time, and I know this from them, there's also plenty of other educators out there that are lazy. And that is exactly what the Tax Foundation is taking advantage of.
Explain that.
So, this group, the Tax Foundation, which of course is funded by all the usual suspects, Chamber of Commerce, big soda, big fossil fuel companies, every.
Pharma companies.
Yeah. Who's who of corporations. They create these lesson plans that teach businesses do better when there are lower taxes. The consumers can pay higher taxes, but the businesses need lower taxes.
Well, give 'em the reasons. I mean, what is it actually saying? What is the logic of why don't let corporations pay taxes?
Yeah. If the corporation pays higher taxes, we're gonna have to cut jobs, and then that's gonna hurt the overall economy. You don't want to be unemployed, high school senior entering a job market. No. So you need corporations to have lower taxes. And the problem is, as I said, these are actual lesson plans that they are prepackaged. They hand them to the teachers. And these teachers who don't have, shouldn't be educators to begin with. They're not doing their own homework. And they say, oh, wow. I don't have to make a lesson plan for the next three weeks because the Tax Foundation just handed it to me. Hell yeah, I'm gonna do this.
Well, more over, there's teachers out there that are gonna agree with this.
Oh, that's true too. But it's propaganda. It's pro-business propaganda from the US Chamber of Commerce.
Yeah. It's nothing but propaganda. The advocates say that we should slash all the taxes on investors where it comes to capital gains. We need to really cut that in half or make it disappear. That a flat tax is a better idea. Make everybody pay the same tax. Do away with estate taxes. Do away with companies that are buying their stock back. You can't, right now, we can tax that. They want to do away with a company's right to even buy their stock back. But what's so amazing is they're having some success with this. And this is an organization that's been around a very long time, right?
Yeah. About a hundred years almost the Tax Foundation.
But this is, I guess as far as I know, this is their first foray into trying to teach our kids that taxes are bad if you tax corporations.
In the last school year, which, we're coming up on a new one very soon, but in the last school year, more than 1500 classrooms in this country taught tax EDU lessons in their classroom. And these kids don't know that they're getting propaganda at all. They just think, oh, if I'm being taught this, this is obviously the unbiased truth, because that's what students believe. That's what they should be getting is an unbiased truth.
Right. Get 'em when they're young. Make 'em into little conservatives when they're young.
A bunch of little libertarians, unfortunately.
Yeah, exactly.
It's even worse.
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