Reducing taxes reduces costs which reduces prices. This is elementary...
I understand that Keynesians don't see it that way, but they are wrong and have been proven wrong on their claim over and over and over.
I'll ask you a question that the lefties on this board have so far refused to answer -- how do tax cuts "pump money into the economy", as you stated in an earlier post? Taxes are simply a confiscation of private sector wealth by the public sector. With taxation, dollars that would have been "pumped into the economy" by the private sector according to its goals are now instead "pumped into the economy" by the public sector (via government spending of tax dollars) according to its goals. The number of dollars is not changing in this scenario. So, how is cutting taxes "pumping money into the economy" when the number of dollars in the economy doesn't change?
As for regulatory changes, I would scrap most of what is in place -- we need a flamethrower here, not a scalpel -- but two obvious ones that would help right now would be to curtail COVID- and energy-related regulations.
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Posted: 05/19/2022 at 1:04PM