kmcolo, the nation has cut taxes and revenue is at the highest it has ever been. History has always shown lower taxes increase economic growth, individual income, corporate and individual investment, and government revenue. Regarding "sacrifice", I suppose this will be the excuse for democrats taxing us into a new depression. This is nation feverishly preparing for war. The problem is leftist and the like-minded playing politics with national security. If you are even remotely honest ,you would admit that no Democrat short of Dennis Kucinich and Michael Moore is really interested in a timetable for bringing our troops home. It is just a political mantra. Further, you say you are not a liber...

kmcolo, the nation has cut taxes and revenue is at the highest it has ever been. History has always shown lower taxes increase economic growth, individual income, corporate and individual investment, and government revenue. Regarding "sacrifice", I suppose this will be the excuse for democrats taxing us into a new depression. This is nation feverishly preparing for war. The problem is leftist and the like-minded playing politics with national security. If you are even remotely honest ,you would admit that no Democrat short of Dennis Kucinich and Michael Moore is really interested in a timetable for bringing our troops home. It is just a political mantra. Further, you say you are not a liberal, but you seem to suffer from the infliction of the left called subjectivity.

"History has always shown lower taxes increase economic
growth"

If you want to catch a mountain lion the only thing you need
to do is return to the site of a previous kill. The mountain lion will return expecting the same success no
matter the differences in conditions.

The idea that all one needs to do to improve the economy is to lower taxes is a
fallacy. In reality the stimulus of a tax cut depends on the conditions in the
economy and how government responds to the decrease in revenue as well as the
underlying causes the might create an economic slowdown (is it a slowdown due
to insufficient demand or a slowdown from over capacity?)

Considering the amount of stimulus to the econ...

"History has always shown lower taxes increase economic
growth"

If you want to catch a mountain lion the only thing you need
to do is return to the site of a previous kill. The mountain lion will return expecting the same success no
matter the differences in conditions.

The idea that all one needs to do to improve the economy is to lower taxes is a
fallacy. In reality the stimulus of a tax cut depends on the conditions in the
economy and how government responds to the decrease in revenue as well as the
underlying causes the might create an economic slowdown (is it a slowdown due
to insufficient demand or a slowdown from over capacity?)

Considering the amount of stimulus to the economy from the
tax cuts and huge deficits the response by the economy has been tepid.



Here is an example from the treasury department where the inverse (a tax increase), which is also
often called a drain on the economy (by some) actually did not hurt (and may
have even helped). (Emphasis added)

Despite the higher tax rates, other
economic fundamentals such as low inflation
and low interest rates, an improved
international picture with the collapse of
the Soviet Union, and the advent of a
qualitatively and quantitatively new
information technologies led to a strong
economic performance throughout the 1990s.
This, in turn, led to an extraordinary
increase in the aggregate tax burden, with
Federal taxes as a share of GDP reaching a
postwar high of 20.8 percent in 2000.

The idea that all one needs to do to improve the economy is to lower taxes is a
fallacy.

To say I said this shows how dishonest you are. It is obvious since you have to make stuff up you really don't have a point to make. The opinion you claim I make suggests I oppose ever raising taxes, when in fact the complete opposite is true. However, in the midst of a war where economic stimulation is needed it it a necessity. My claim was that every time taxes have decreased, the economy has benefited and government revenue increased. I do not think it a good thing that government revenue increase. It does not take a rocket scientist, but I am aware internet communities and groups do ...

The idea that all one needs to do to improve the economy is to lower taxes is a
fallacy.

To say I said this shows how dishonest you are. It is obvious since you have to make stuff up you really don't have a point to make. The opinion you claim I make suggests I oppose ever raising taxes, when in fact the complete opposite is true. However, in the midst of a war where economic stimulation is needed it it a necessity. My claim was that every time taxes have decreased, the economy has benefited and government revenue increased. I do not think it a good thing that government revenue increase. It does not take a rocket scientist, but I am aware internet communities and groups do not consist of anything approaching a rocket scientist.