[K-oneTexas]

Good article. Several authors posted here are favorites, Herman Cain is one of them. I enjoy the simple down to earth way he states the obvious (that many of us tend to overlook or do not vocalize).

(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))

[satchmodog9]

bump

[eeevil conservative]

YAY!

Thanks for posting it!

HERMAN STRIKES AGAIN!

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!

[oprahstheantichrist]

"President John F. Kennedy introduced a plan in 1963 to lower the highest individual tax rate of 91 to 70 percent...."

I've always wondered how it got to 91% in the first place. Which brilliant legislative body enacted that one?

[BARLF]

A lawyer told my sil/bil he now votes republican because of death tax. IMO Republicans should talk more about doing away with this tax. Permanently.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Members of Congress who blame tax cuts for causing deficits might as well argue that gun manufacturers cause homicides, fast food restaurants cause obesity and cigarette makers cause lung cancer. Surely no one would agree with that flawed logic.

Ummmm...the left does argue those very things...with constant repitition. And, at least out here on the left coast, majorities believe it...hook, line and sinker. It gives the left no problem whatsoever to argue that tax cuts cause deficits...and it gives large chunks of the American electorate no difficulty whatsoever believing it to be unassailable gospel. So now what?

[zbigreddogz]

Members of Congress who blame tax cuts for causing deficits might as well argue that gun manufacturers cause homicides, fast food restaurants cause obesity and cigarette makers cause lung cancer. Surely no one would agree with that flawed logic.

Uhh...this is a joke, right?

Not that he's wrong, he's 100% right, but isn't this pretty much the DNC platform?

[ancient_geezer]

The burden of high bracket rates on production increases as the square of the tax rate imposed (the burden quadruples for a doubling of the marginal rate.)

Focus those taxes on the most productive components of our business and investment infra-structure, as the graduated income tax does, and that effect can be devestating to an economy.

A Taxreform bump for you all.

If anyone would like to be added to this ping list let me know.

John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25) offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and SS/Medicare payroll taxes outright and replace them with with a national retail sales tax administered by the states.

H.R.25,S.25
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Refer for additional information:

• search: "national sales tax" OR "national retail sales tax" OR "fairtax"

[Principled]

pong

[n-tres-ted]

And Bruce Bartlett ought to be included as one of those telling the lies. I'm amazed by the guy - claiming to be a supply-side economist and a conservative himself and bashing the president for not be a conservative. I think all that qualifies BB as being both a liberal and a demand-sider.

[patriot_wes]

"t federal tax revenues for the first five months of fiscal year 2006 are up 10.3 percent from the same period a year ago. The 2006 revenue growth adds to a 15 percent tax revenue increase from 2004 to 2005. This good fortune for U.S. Treasury coffers is attributed to the steady and growing economy, which is largely a product of the 2003 cuts in income, dividend and capital gains tax rates."

As Rush says; It happens everytime it's tried!

[eraser2005]

This is interesting... also its interesting that the President's own Council of Economic Advisors have stated that the economic stimulus of a tax cut is not sufficient to replace the revenues lost via a cut.