[oldbrowser]

I would be interested in learning the rationale of persons who believe that tax cuts add to cost.

Politicians and government bureaucrats believe that all of our money belongs to them. Therefore, if they return some of the taxpayer's money they consider that to be an expenditure on their part.

[MosesKnows]

Politicians and government bureaucrats believe that all of our money belongs to them.

Several responses expressed the same rationale, which is about as well as it can be expressed.

I think the key is the progressive notion that reducing taxes by allowing the wage earner to keep more of what he earned is a gift from the government.