Sunday, August 01, 2010
Alan Greenspan: Extending Bush Tax Cuts Without Paying For Them Could Be 'Disastrous'
This just in... The Bush tax cuts did not end up paying for themselves! The promise that they would, like the entire supply-side argument, is a fraud. It's the brazen Reagan era theory that never worked, nor was it planned to work, yet it stays alive and proceeds to die and live again and again - perhaps the strangest economic theory ever conceived.
Conservatives worship its power of persuasion - trotting it out every time everyone forgets about it - having discovered that wealthy parasites adore it, idiots believe it, poker players love it, and capitalist marketers know a diamond when they see it - even in a pile of muck.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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