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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:15:23 -0400, "Bill DeWitt"
<Bill.DeWitt@adelphia.net> wrote:
>SMS mentioned in passing :
>>
>>>
>>> Since the tax cut has increased revenue, what is the "real,
>>> immediate and negative effect of the tax cuts on the deficit"?
>>
>> There is no evidence at all that the tax cuts have produced any
>> revenue.
>
> Every time taxes have been cut, the revenue has increased. The mechanics
>are obvious and well described. When the results meet the predictions of the
>hypothesis, one generally concludes that the best explanation has been
>found.
>
>> You simply do not know whether the revenue would have been
>> higher or
>> lower without the tax cuts.
>
> Well, since those who believe differently predicted that revenues
>would -not- rise, and those for the cut predicted that it would, I have to
>say that this is another win in the "for"column.
>
>> Supply-side economics have been thoroughly
>> discredited,
>
> False. "Supply side economics" has been thoroughly propagandized against
>by the left, but, like any science, it works whether you believe in it or
>not.
Bullshit. The propaganda is with the right for prosituting
real science to political ideology.
Democrats provided numbers on the welfare issue. Instead of,
as science would demand, refuting numbers with numbers, Bush simply
(well-chosen word) replied, "Fuzzy math. Fuzzy math" and the wackos
still voted for him. Hell of a scientist, that Bu(ll)sh(it).
>
>>so the evidence would be that tax cuts do NOT increase
>> revenue.
>
> So -that's- why the revenues increased after every income tax cut?
>Remarkable.
>