He voted against an unfunded bill, which he does regularly. Take a look at your empty words on tax cuts. They worked.
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Why do we still have to deal with the zombie lie that tax cuts increased revenue? Do you also believe in Santa Clause? If not, why do you think the way to grow government, make it bigger, pay for more spending, is to cut tax rates?
There's literally not a single legitimate economist on planet earth who believes TCJA increased revenues over the pre-TCJA regime. Not one. If you doubt that, find anyone and quote them.
CBO says that it will add on net,
after all the additional economic growth from lower taxes is factored in, TCJA will add $1,900 billion over 10 years to the debt. The low side estimates that ignore the cost of borrowing put the tab at around $1 trillion, and they assume pretty massive impacts on growth. But that's best case - $1,000 billion over 10 years.
The IBD editorial's premise is just this stupid. Say you're a company and sales are growing 10% per year, and have for a decade. You hire a new PR guy and he revamps the advertising and marketing campaign, and in a great economy sales grow 0.01% the following year. Is there anyone stupid enough to look at those results and claim - "The new marketing campaign WORKED!!!! BONUSES FOR YOU MR. AD MAN!! Here's $1 million for your great work!!!"
Not to mention, editorials like that make an implied but unstated assumption that the ONLY thing that matters in the economy is taxes. If you want to know how the economy is going to do, all you need to know is tax rates. Interest rates don't matter, inflation doesn't matter, population growth doesn't matter, wage rates, world demand, the value of the dollar, productivity growth - all that is irrelevant. Of course that's idiotic, and only someone who is completely ignorant about economics and the economy would claim it, but that's what the editorial makes the reader accept as a given, if they accept their conclusion, because the only variable they consider is....tax rates.
Do they project what economic growth would be under the old tax regime? No. So they have no idea whether or how much the tax cuts impacted growth in 9 months in FYE Sept 2008. We know the economy had grown for about 8-9 years under the old rates, so why would that change It wouldn't.
Do they project tax revenues under pre-TCJA and compare them to actual under TCJA? No, of course not. So how can they even guess the impact of TJCA on revenues? They cannot.
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