[Always Right]

So, whose assumptions do we trust? The economist's or your's?

In way you are right and in a way you are wrong. Their economists do assume all the costs of taxes are born by the consumer. But they also assume that the costs of payroll taxes are born by the employee also. And then they also assume those same taxes are also born by the employer. It is that type of double and triple counting their benefit that their bought and paid for economists come up with the outrageous numbers they do.

[Your Nightmare]

In way you are right and in a way you are wrong. Their economists do assume all the costs of taxes are born by the consumer. But they also assume that the costs of payroll taxes are born by the employee also. And then they also assume those same taxes are also born by the employer. It is that type of double and triple counting their benefit that their bought and paid for economists come up with the outrageous numbers they do.

I stand corrected.