Re: Re: It's the spending

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Re: Re: It's the spending

TB — 1/15/2011 7:25:01 PM (archived)

Your graph is of tax RATES, and has little to do with overall revenue. Part of the liberal religion is, of course, that extremely high tax rates will bring in extremely high revenues. This has yet to happen in the real world.

By your theory, according to the graph you posted, the 1970s should have been endless years of surplus, and the 1990s gigantic deficits. Real world? Exactly the opposite.

You want a graph? Here's a graph, in inflation-adjusted dollars:

http://www.theneweditor.com/uploads/FederalSpending.jpg

The whole thread (39 posts)

U.S. credit rating in danger - TB - 1/13/2011 5:54:07 PM
- Obama's view of raising the debt ceiling. - Lee - 1/16/2011 1:20:33 AM
- Jesee Christee, WTF? - Velociraptorblade - 1/14/2011 4:55:40 AM
- Re: danger - TB - 1/13/2011 6:52:11 PM
  - Re: insight - TB - 1/14/2011 7:02:47 AM
  - And now for some true insight into the GOP mentality - BuckGalaxy - 1/14/2011 6:31:49 AM
  - Re: Oh there's a good argument - TB - 1/14/2011 1:15:34 AM
    - It's the spending. - TB - 1/14/2011 6:53:06 AM
      - Re: It's the spending AND tax cuts - BuckGalaxy - 1/15/2011 9:37:13 AM
        
        P.S. - TB - 1/15/2011 7:26:02 PM
        
        Re: Re: It's the spending - TB - 1/15/2011 7:25:01 PM
        
        Last comment on this - buckgalaxy - 1/16/2011 9:49:58 PM
        
        Maximizing revenue - TB - 1/17/2011 6:07:00 PM
        
        Hopeless - buckgalaxy - 1/18/2011 6:30:36 PM
        
        P.S. on spending - TB - 1/18/2011 7:22:47 PM
        
        And just for fun... - TB - 1/19/2011 2:09:18 AM
        
        So you agree Bush is at fault for the economy then - Velociraptorblade - 1/19/2011 6:21:36 AM
        
        Which part? - TB - 1/19/2011 4:47:30 PM
        
        Re: a problem - TB - 1/19/2011 5:37:53 AM
        
        Re: LOL - TB - 1/19/2011 8:55:28 PM
        
        Re: the results - TB - 1/20/2011 12:06:52 AM
        
        Looking up numbers - buckgalaxy - 1/19/2011 10:43:57 PM
        
        LOL at YOU - BuckGalaxy - 1/19/2011 7:34:16 PM
        
        Yeah I see a problem - BuckGalaxy - 1/19/2011 4:23:28 AM
        
        And? - TB - 1/19/2011 2:05:59 AM
        
        All of your stats are skewed - buckgalaxy - 1/19/2011 1:36:28 AM
        
        Re: Hopeless - TB - 1/18/2011 6:57:22 PM
        
        Re: The funniest part of that link you gave... - buckgalaxy - 1/17/2011 6:25:14 AM
        
        The funniest part of that link you gave... - TB - 1/17/2011 3:28:50 AM
        
        Re: Not quite the last comment on this - TB - 1/17/2011 12:51:37 AM
        
        Re: Last comment on this - buckgalaxy - 1/17/2011 12:31:50 AM
        
        Re: Last comment on this - TB - 1/17/2011 12:00:23 AM
    - Busness as usual - BuckGalaxy - 1/14/2011 6:20:46 AM
  - Show me the word "taxes" in my post. (n/t) - TB - 1/14/2011 1:05:55 AM
  - The only rational response to anything is to cut taxes, don't you know? - alcaray - 1/14/2011 1:01:42 AM
  - *Contented sigh* - Jody - 1/13/2011 9:58:58 PM
  - Oh there's a good argument - buckgalaxy - 1/13/2011 9:53:04 PM
  - Meanwhile, out here in my alternate reality... - TB - 1/13/2011 8:31:51 PM
- No danger - BuckGalaxy - 1/13/2011 6:20:46 PM

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