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Health Reform Threatened by Conservatives' Anti-Tax Fantasy (Washington Post editorial)
Washington comPost ^ | 7/29/2009 | Steven Pearlstein

Posted on 07/29/2009 9:14:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: RobinOfKingston
From Kennedy forward, when taxes go down prosperity (and revenues) go up.

Actually it goes back a lot further than that. Andrew Mellon during the Coolidge administration cut them from the 70's imposed by Wilson to 25% and saw revenues increase dramatically. It works every time it's tried but it's very inconvenient for the advocates of social engineering thru the tax system.

21 posted on 07/29/2009 10:30:00 AM PDT by Timocrat
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To: SeekAndFind

“Nothing has been more damaging to rational discourse about economic policy than the notion, peddled relentlessly by Republican conservatives and accepted by too many centrist Democrats, that raising taxes is always and everywhere bad for the economy.”

This is an absolute Pearl of Stupidity.

I can think of many many things that ruin rational discourse on economic policy ... and anti-tax sentiment isn’t one of them.


22 posted on 07/29/2009 11:39:51 AM PDT by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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To: Red Boots

Watch the video at the link at #12-—outstanding!


23 posted on 07/29/2009 1:06:50 PM PDT by Fu-fu2
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