Analysis: Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth

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Analysis: Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth

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Really, a study of 65 years for something most of us knew all along?

http://www.nationaljournal.com/domestic ... s-20120917

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Re: Analysis: Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth

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bannination wrote:Really, a study of 65 years for something most of us knew all along?

http://www.nationaljournal.com/domestic ... s-20120917
And has essentially no effect on tax revenues:

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Raising tax rates will not bring in more revenue.

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It does have other effects: Economic growth

http://conceptualmath.org/philo/taxgrowth.htm

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If you look at absolute dollars of revenue, instead of a percentage of GDP, lowered marginal rates do in fact increase revenues:

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Wneglia wrote:If you look at absolute dollars of revenue, instead of a percentage of GDP, lowered marginal rates do in fact increase revenues:

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Alright we have a stalemate! :mrgreen:

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