• @JasSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    11 year ago

    Tax revenues increased after those tax cuts. It will help to read about the Laffer curve. There is a kind if elasticity of demand for tax revenue. When raising taxes, some proportion of economic activity, including people working, is reduced. This can lead to a net decrease in tax revenue. The opposite is also true. The Laffer curve stipulates that there is an optimal tax efficiency on the vertex.

    Of course this has nothing to do with fair distribution. It simply means that, paradoxically, higher taxes would reduce the size of the federal budget.