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To: sickoflibs
It's the “tax cuts cure all ills” and “tax cuts pay for themselves” narratives used in context with Bush record. Tax cuts have definite benefits but trying to defend those two simple messages have backfired.

The "tax cuts cure all ills" line is of your own creation....never heard it on talk radio.

The "tax cuts pay for themselves" has been proven in hard numbers....a lot more tax money came in after the cuts...exact figures are readily available, so you are a little bit less than half right, since the "cure all ills" item is debatable, the increase in incoming revenue is not.

Lot of talk shows out there, so someone may have said it at some point.

31 posted on 05/21/2009 12:36:10 PM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: capt. norm; Jeff Chandler; jonrick46
RE :”The “tax cuts pay for themselves” has been proven in hard numbers....a lot more tax money came in after the cuts...

As I explained directly in the reply you responded to ; the tax cuts came along with record money printing and government spending. Those two increases alone will increase tax revenues(until the crash) , but create a deficit as they did. In fact if tax cuts REALLY created the revenues those revenues would still be coming in now, the tax cuts were never repealed, but the low interest rates were.

Tax cuts increasing revenue has never been proved, and in many or most cases is theoretically untrue. Instead it sends the message government is free, which Obama is using. But its a litany that the listeners repeat as fact. You are proving the exact point I made in my example.

I know I am a heretic's, how can I even contradict the 'doctrine' ? that no one has to pay taxes ever.

37 posted on 05/21/2009 1:25:38 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama /Pelosi/Bush Theme : "A dollar borrowed or printed is a dollar earned!")
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