Nobody ever asks where that first dollar comes from.

TB — 12/1/2012 6:31:25 PM (archived)

The original paper the article is based on showed that the GDP effects of the "stimulus" disappear after ten years. The borrowed and printed "stimulus" dollars are forever.

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STUDY: Every $1 Of Infrastructure Spending Boosts The Economy By $2, except for during a recession... - BuckGalaxy - 12/1/2012 7:32:10 AM
- What Conservatives don't realize is that it's spent with companies owned by Conservatives! - bowser - 12/2/2012 2:17:13 AM
  - A party who has boiled every complex issue down to a one sentence slogan. - BuckGalaxy - 12/2/2012 8:29:59 AM
    - Who benefits from "entitlements"? - bowser - 12/2/2012 8:20:50 PM
- Funny - RobVG - 12/1/2012 6:22:24 PM
  - Amazing people can't grasp that the data shows - BuckGalaxy - 12/1/2012 9:23:20 PM
    - Well I guess if all you're concerned with is the short term, fine. n/t - RobVG - 12/1/2012 11:07:17 PM
      - We're talking about two different things - BuckGalaxy - 12/2/2012 4:53:26 AM
      - Some times a great depression/recession/financial meltdown is in your short term. - alcaray - 12/2/2012 12:33:03 AM
        
        That's a move too far for TB's thinking - BuckGalaxy - 12/2/2012 6:22:10 AM
      - Remember... - TB - 12/1/2012 11:47:50 PM
        
        Now I'm slipping into the twilight zone! - BuckGalaxy - 12/2/2012 8:27:56 AM
        
        I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more. - ER - 12/2/2012 12:53:19 PM
  - Nobody ever asks where that first dollar comes from. - TB - 12/1/2012 6:31:25 PM
- Infrastructure costs money, which means higher taxes. - ER - 12/1/2012 1:04:31 PM

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