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To: TimF who wrote (43300)	5/18/2010 8:22:28 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: [tax cuts HAPPENED.] "Taxes where cut, then they where increased, then they where increased again a few times, then they where cut again..." True. Reality is messy. (Still... the net effect from the Reagan years was STILL a lowering of tax rates --- even after some of it was taken back in a few years. So it is not like there was 'no net reduction'. :-) Re: "In other words "starve the beast" has failed to be consistently applied." And it NEVER, EVER WILL BE IN THE REAL WORLD SO LONG AS DEFICIT BORROWING IS AVAILABLE TO THE POLITICIANS AS AN 'OUT'. Without something difficult to evade --- such as a prohibition in the Constitution limiting / banning deficit borrowing... such as Germany has now enacted --- then you never ever will get or see a 'real world' application of your "cut taxes but don't cut spending" theory. (Except, that is, for the few years where it has indeed been tried, and failed to reduce the size of government any... as the gub'mint just went on borrowing and spending and never was bothered one little bit.)