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Yeah, look how well that worked during GWB's presidency...

As Center for American Progress Director of Tax and Budget Policy Michael Linden found,

“in the past 60 years, job growth has actually been greater in years when the top income tax rate was much higher than it is now.” 
In fact, “if you ranked each year since 1950 by overall job growth, the top five years would all boast marginal tax rates at 70 percent or higher.” The GOP, as Upton displays, simply has no explanation for these facts.

In a Bloomberg op-ed, wealthy investor Nick Hanauer also blew a hole in the GOP’s line of thinking, writing, “I can start a business based on a great idea, and initially hire dozens or hundreds of people. But if no one can afford to buy what I have to sell, my business will soon fail and all those jobs will evaporate. That’s why I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs.” The GOP would do well to take note.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/04/381510/upton-cant-explain-tax-cuts-jobs/




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Can tax cuts increase tax revenue?
By: Zimbler0
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Sun, 26 Feb 12 8:02 PM
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Yes - if the economy improves.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/03/jack-kemp-reagan-republican-gop-opinions-columnists-obituary.html

Of even greater political relevance was John F. Kennedy's big tax cut, which was rammed through Congress by Lyndon Johnson after his death. This legislation had reduced the top rate to 70% from 91% and the bottom rate to 14% from 20%.

Just before I went to work for Kemp, he had asked the Congressional Research Service what the revenue effect of Kennedy's tax cut had been. The CRS data showed that, despite the tax cut, federal revenues increased.

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