[CLUE-Talk] Iraq Stuph

[Randy Arabie]

On Tuesday, 22 April 2003 at 21:12:19 -0600, Chris Terry
<tuba_man at attbi.com> wrote:

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> And the economics:
> Yes, the slide started with Clinton, but I haven't seen it pick up 
> enough to be able to praise Bush with fixing the problem.  And that 
> brings up another good point.  I'm not the most informed on economic 
> history, so could you point me to an instance where tax cuts and other 
> generally republican economic plans have fixed (or at least started to 
> reverse) a downturn/depression like this one?

WRT to tax cuts, the theory of supply side economics states that they
can actually increase government revenue.

  http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/SupplySideEconomics.html

Kennedy-Johnson & Reagan-Bush administrations both implemented tax cuts
in that resulted in an increase in tax revenue.
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Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/