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To: TimF who wrote (16363)	4/27/2017 12:40:19 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 365150

but probably even more so because achieving the maximum tax income in the short run shouldn't even be a goal. Which is a strawman argument. No one but people like you have proposed maximizing tax income. Usually when this is mentioned is to counter the argument that any increase in taxes for any reason on any income group, especially the wealthy, will result in a catastrophic drop in economic activity. Over the past few decades, every time the possibility of raising taxes is raised, those on the Right light their hair on fire and scream about it driving the country into recession Every time a tax increase has occurred, the economy has actually improved. Now it is almost certainly the case that when the tax increase was passed, the economy was actually improving and the tax increase made little or no difference. Just as Keynesian economics maintains. Now, are we supposed to ignore these facts or pile on disproven economic theories? Trick question. I know what you choose.