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- From: kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm)
- Subject: Re: DC Myth # 302 : A tax increase will lower the deficit
- References: <C1JI84.7Cu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan28.032938.4298@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:38:36 GMT
- Keywords: taxes, deficit, lower
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- thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
-
- >In article <C1JI84.7Cu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
- >> Why do people inside the beltway still believe a tax increase will lower
- >>the deficit? The following numbers would dispute this:
- >>
- >> Year Federal Taxes per person
- >>
- >> 1983 $2,490
- >>
- >> 1993 $4,438 ( projected )
- >>
- >>( from a Tax Foundation report , Sept 1992 )
- >>
- >> Of course, while the tax burden nearly doubled, the deficit spireled
- >>through the roof.
-
- >Gee, you didn't happen to mention that inflation nearly doubled also in the
- >same time period, did you? Naaaah.
-
- Do you have inflation numbers ( I don't, and that's why I didn't post them)?
- If you actually have some, then maybe we can make a comparision.
-
- >>[ no need to flame Reagan/Bush, they tried to decrease
- >>spending, but Congress wouldn't do it ]
-
- >Why do you pose such a canard? Bush asked for *more* spending than
- >Congress actually approved on *every* *single* *budget*.
-
- You know that the presidential budget is a wish list! Besides, when
- it came to crunch time Reagan made a deal with congress that tax increases
- would be accompanied by spending cuts so as to keep the deficit down.
- Obviously only the tax increases survived!
-
- >the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
-