Daily Clips: April 28, 2017
Trump’s corporate tax cuts would increase deficit, and therefore are very unlike to pass The Republican tax cut myth: It’s worth remembering that the conservative Heritage Foundation made exactly the same argument about the 2001 tax cut that Secretary Mnuchin is making today. It issued a report on April 27, 2001 forecasting that by 2011, federal revenues would be higher with the tax cut than they would have been without it, due to higher economic growth, greater investment, and lower unemployment. In fact, real G.D.P. growth was half of what Heritage predicted and the unemployment rate was 50 percent higher. It predicted that federal revenues would equal $3.3 trillion in 2011 including the effect of the tax cut; revenues actually were $1 trillion less, $2.3 trillion. American Airlines announces pay raises for pilots and shareholders freak Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940 US economy has weakest quarterly performance in three years: So…is this still a part of the Obama economy? Quote of the day: Mr. Obama, who recently accepted a very lucrative speaking engagement on Wall Street, now looks like just one of the fortunate members of historically depressed minorities who mistake their own upward mobility for collective advance.
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