Taxes and economic growth

Two recent New Times columns make the case that lower taxes are not the magic elixir that automatically  leads to economic success. Both worth reading. Bruce Bartlett, one of the authors of the Reagan tax cuts, in a critique of…

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Tax cuts and economic growth

Another great New York Times Economix blog from Bruce Bartlett entitled "the Bush tax-cut failure". Bartlett is one of the original supply side tax cutters. He served as senior staff to, among others, Jack Kemp, Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul.…

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The failed low tax experiment

Former Governor Granholm commented on my blog on a decade of state spending restraint. (You can find the blog and comment here.) The Governor wrote: ... Of course much of that was due to the changes in the economy, but…

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Low tax America

Bruce Bartlett is one of the original supply siders. He worked in both the Reagan and first Bush Administrations as well as for Congressmen Jack Kemp and Ron Paul. He was involved in the drafting of the Kemp/Roth tax cut…

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