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Re: Truss backs down on cut to top rate of tax

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There will be another fight over the scale of any spending cuts required to limit the deficit that the income tax reductions produce.

If you cut support, then you damage consumption patterns and put a brake on the growth that the tax cuts are intended to promote.

Amazing that we are going around this loop again, where we count the multiplier of lower taxes (investment! spending!) and discount the cost of reduced demand from people who have to spend money to survive and the profits that spending generates.

And yet we have seen how this works before. It causes a lot of immediate misery for little long run benefit.


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Re: Truss backs down on cut to top rate of tax
By: Cactus Flower
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Mon, 03 Oct 22 11:19 AM
Msg. 47321 of 54864

There's the silver lining.

The cloud is that they reverted to 1980s dogma. We already know how that plays out. The growth is less than it says on the tin. Meanwhile wealthy people get expanded offshore bank accounts and fancier yachts made in some foreign country, while the rest of the country is left paying off the debt for a generation.

I don't think you get much back from the top slice of income earners. Your growth is going to come from people in the middle of the income curve, who may take a risk and launch their own business if they have a little more in the bank. That's my dogma, if you will and it's why I argue my case.


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