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TheFarseer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:36 AM Original message |
"Cutting taxes actually increases revenue" |
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AllegroRondo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
1. So if we cut taxes to 0, the government would be rolling in dough |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Might as well- |
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TheFarseer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:42 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. That's the argument I always use n/t |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. I wonder why that argument is never applied to college tuition |
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blurp (769 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:40 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Because education is now an industry. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
3. Try telling that to your kids when you cut their allowance in half |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
6. It's only a true statement if you also cut spending. |
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NoAmericanTaliban (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
7. Yea, & I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you :) |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
8. I always like to "localize" such arguments |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
10. If revenue goes up, taxes were not cut - only shifted. |
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shoelace414 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:45 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Exactly |
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TheFarseer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:58 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. and Reagan didn't cut taxes |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
11. Yeah...we got surpluses as far as the eye can see.... |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
12. Up is down. |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. And war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. |
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Ron Mexico (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
14. Tax cuts are supposed to be offset by spending cuts as well, and |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
15. they've been in thrall to this lie for three decades now |
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Sammy Pepys (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
17. Laffer curve |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
18. Apparently, it works within a very narrow window. |
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wakeme2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-10-06 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
20. Let's see Clinton raised taxes |
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