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47333 Re: Truss backs down on cut to top rate of tax
   CNBC talking about loss of credibility & wonder how the Bank of Englan...
clo2   ALEA   03 Oct 2022
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47332 Re: Truss backs down on cut to top rate of tax
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clo2   ALEA   03 Oct 2022
2:55 PM

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

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Mon, 03 Oct 22 2:34 PM
Msg. 47330 of 54959
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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.