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To: DoodleDawg
The government toolbox for fighting a recession is pretty empty.

What's left? Aside from negative interest rates to drive people to either spend, or start hoarding cash in mattress. There could be a moratorium on corporate taxes to try and increase spending that way, but corporations would likely just use any cash to buy back shares, which they did a lot of during the last recession, and they leveraged up to do it too.

17 posted on 08/20/2019 8:12:21 AM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is like the "One-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: voicereason
There could be a moratorium on corporate taxes to try and increase spending that way, but corporations would likely just use any cash to buy back shares, which they did a lot of during the last recession, and they leveraged up to do it too.

And would drive up the deficit even more as well. How long can we support $2 trillion or $3 trillion deficits?

23 posted on 08/20/2019 2:00:01 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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