Procrustes Stretched
Dante's Manifesto
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the answer is indisputable: the tax cuts did their intended job of returning money to taxpayers. The government took in less than it would have otherwise.
How do I know? Brian Riedl said so. Riedl found that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts were responsible for “just 14 percent of the swing from the projected cumulative $5.6 trillion surplus for 2002-2011 to an actual $6.1 trillion deficit.”
How much is just 14 percent? Riedl did the math so I don’t have to: $1.7 trillion. Throw in other tax costs -- primarily the annual patching of the Alternative Minimum Tax, made more expensive by the existence of the Bush tax cuts -- and you get another $400 billion. Throw in the extra interest payments caused by the increased debt -- a cost Riedl conveniently omitted -- and you have $377 billion more.
PostPartisan - Did the Bush tax cuts reduce revenue? Of course.
"Otherwise" is speculative bullshit for mental masturbators.
You never read the article yet you lied and said you did. You keep shifting like sand. You're a troll.
and you suck at it.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/08/cherry-picking_season.html cherry-picking_season
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