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To: Hostage
Wow - you just really don't like the numbers.

The fact is that that Americans are not dissauded from working by the current tax levels. So when taxes are cut revenues go down.

I wish it weren't that way but calling people names doesn't change the numbers.


449 posted on 09/01/2007 6:05:03 AM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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To: gondramB

Your previous post showed a chart that was obviously doctored. And you posted it as fact!

All you’ve shown in your current chart and statements is an inability to read what is in front of you. The chart shows revenue from households averaged over the number of households. And it shows the Clinton tax hikes extracted more from households.

What is does not show is the revenue from businesses.

Lucky for Clinton he had the internet revolution occur under his watch and that was largely facilitated by the Republican telecommunications legislation. He also had the dot-com bubble form under his watch which greatly increased revenues from capital gains.

In any event your attempts to prove the unprovable have failed. Don’t try again for the sake of your own embarassment.


454 posted on 09/01/2007 6:20:26 AM PDT by Hostage (Fred Thompson will be President.)
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To: gondramB
Weren’t federal taxes raised in 1982 and 1983 (following the 1981 tax cut)? IIRC, Some tax deductions were also eliminated during the Reagan years.

Second, assuming the economy always grows over time, we would expect tax revenue to also increase over time.

Currently, 17 cents of every dollar collected in taxes is merely used to make interest payments. In other words, we are paying through the nose to just tred water.

474 posted on 09/01/2007 8:08:35 AM PDT by lucysmom
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