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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (43381)5/24/2010 2:29:20 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
I'm not changing anything. The claim was different with different people, but generally it was for smaller government than would be the case without this measure. Some claimed actual smaller government, many did not (at least not just from that one change/tactic)

Tax rate cuts seem to exert little-to-no restraint whatsoever upon government spending

Again to determine that you would have to know what spending would have been without the tax cut.

If you start with $1tril in government spending, and you end with $3tril, but you would have had $4tril without the tax cut, than the tax cut did exert quite a bit of restraint on government spending.
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