Tax Evasion

The great lie of supply-side economics

Supply-side economics is the monster that will not die. The supply-side argument that, in the United States, tax-rate cuts pay for themselves--that, after cutting taxes, the government actually ends up with more revenue--has little or no support within the mainstream economic profession, and no hard empirical data to back it up. Myriad studies have demonstrated that both the Reagan tax cuts of the nineteen-eighties and the tax cuts put through under the ... Full Story »

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by M. Simon - Oct. 1, 2008

As soon as the tax cuts were enacted in 2003 the economy came out of a slump and tax revenues started increasing. In fact government revenue increased faster than projected by the CBO. The deficit is now at about 160 bn a year and falling. Making it about 1.5 % of economic output. It is scheduled to go to zero around 2008. So despite the studies, in the real world it is working.

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