"Lu Powell" wrote in message
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"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues
are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is
to cut the rates now ... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget
deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can
bring a budget surplus."

"Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the
levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an
increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government."

"In today's economy, fiscal prudence and responsibility call for tax
reduction even if it temporarily enlarges the federal deficit - why
reducing taxes is the best way open to us to increase revenues."

"It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to
stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major
reduction of individual income tax rates."

"Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large a share
of personal and business purchasing power and reduces the incentive for
risk, investment and effort - thereby aborting our recoveries and stifling
our national growth rate."

"A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a
balanced federal budget. Every taxpayer and his family will have more
money left over after taxes for a new car, a new home, new conveniences,
education and investment. Every businessman can keep a higher percentage
of his profits in his cash register or put it to work expanding or
improving his business, and as the national income grows, the federal
government will ultimately end up with more revenues."

"In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United
States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income
in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies
operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies
operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly
made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment."

"In short, it is a paradoxical truth that ... the soundest way to raise
the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. The experience of a
number of European countries and Japan have borne this out. This country's
own experience with tax reduction (nine years ago) has borne this out. And
the reason is that only full employment can balance the budget, and tax
reduction can pave the way to that employment. The purpose of cutting
taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more
prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."


Are you afraid of the attribution? (Hint: google works)

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Nom=de=Plume

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On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:33:50 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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Are you afraid of the attribution? (Hint: google works)

I never heard of the guy.

One thing that strikes me is deficit spending only works if it
actually creates LONG TERM jobs for marginally qualified people.
Things like clunker employ a factory for a month, then what? That is
the classic "give a man a fish".

We better find something we can make here ... fast.


It's also about infrastructre renewal. This is what FDR did and it was
working. The clunker program worked in a short term way, but you're right,
we need more long-term projects. The stim plan does have provisions for
infrastructure spending, and the money is starting to arrive.

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Nom=de=Plume

On 11/8/09 2:16 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:
wrote in message
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On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:33:50 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:


Are you afraid of the attribution? (Hint: google works)

I never heard of the guy.

One thing that strikes me is deficit spending only works if it
actually creates LONG TERM jobs for marginally qualified people.
Things like clunker employ a factory for a month, then what? That is
the classic "give a man a fish".

We better find something we can make here ... fast.


It's also about infrastructre renewal. This is what FDR did and it was
working. The clunker program worked in a short term way, but you're right,
we need more long-term projects. The stim plan does have provisions for
infrastructure spending, and the money is starting to arrive.



We could have the unemployed round up the obstructionist
Republicans/Conservatives and...

Naw. Too German...