Of course it's your premise, you just aren't intelligent enough to see it, or honest enough to admit it if you did.
No, you do that because you have to construct straw men in order to stay relevant in the debate. Which is fine...it's the hallmark of a desperate person. I don't know from where or how you reached that conclusion, but I do know you didn't reach it on your own. That's for ******* sure. So when you cannot argue what it is we are debating, you just invent a position, foist it on me, that way you don't have to be held to account for your belief system, which is what we are talking about; namely, that cutting taxes is a net good thing. It's not. We all know it's not. You know it's not, yet you argue it anyway. Why? Are you that much of an egomaniac?
Government speak for "it's our money". Typing those words shows exactly how you think, an idiot spends too much and then says " I had a revenue gap". Code for I can't cut spending so I'll just take more of other people's money. You can't run your household budget that and neither can the Gov. Hence we are 20 trillion in debt. LOL, shifted the goal posts? I'll say it again komrade, it's the spending. You simply can't have everything you want, weren't you taught that when you were little?
So we had a balanced budget in 2000...one that produced a surplus. Then you cut taxes in 2001, and suddenly that record surplus was turned into record deficits. From 2000-2003,
revenue was cut by 14%,
yet spending grew by just 12%. So it was the tax cuts that caused the deficits to appear. Tax cuts, we were promised, would pay for themselves. Guess what? They didn't.
And as for the $20T debt, can you please explain to me why it's a big deal to you when it wasn't a big deal 17 years ago? Or isn't a big deal today now that Republicans are in control? Oh wait, I think I just answered my own question with that one. The debt has no effect on GDP (you all lied and tried to say it did, hence we got Sequestration), it has no effect on our borrowing rates (as they have remained historically low), it has no effect on inflation (which has remained steady and constant). So what is it about the debt that concerns you so much? Or is it just you
posturing on the debt because you have absolutely no good economic arguments to make in favor of the belief system to which you have subscribed?
This is you trying to put words in my mouth and then claim I shifted the "goal posts", sorry son those are your words and will never be able to make me lose focus by deflecting.
Ok, so if tax cuts don't pay for themselves, don't create jobs, don't create growth, and only cause deficits and debt to appear,
then why do them at all? Clearly, there is no economic benefit to them. So why are you arguing on their behalf? You and I both know they don't do anything other than manufacture deficits and debt...which you were screeching about one paragraph ago. So explain this to me; you complain about deficits and debt, and your solution is to cut taxes which only further creates deficits and debt. So how is your argument not masturbation? You are complaining about the very thing your policy causes.
LOL, that's EXACTLY my argument. If you spend more than you have you don't just automatically get more. You cut spending. You are clearly economically illiterate.
Ahhh, but here's the thing, moron, the
promise made by those arguing your position was that there wouldn't be a need to cut spending because the tax cuts would generate all this economic activity that the resulting revenues would pay for what was lost. Of course, that's a bullshit promise that has consistently been proven wrong over and over the last 37 years. Why would it suddenly start doing the opposite now? You all promised that tax cuts would be this magical thing that would increase economic activity, growth, etc....only it never does. All it does is manufacture deficits and debt that are then used as an excuse to cut the spending you are ideologically opposed to but have no chance to repeal through legislation because you lack the courage and support to do it. So you very cynically attack the budget to force deficits that you then posture about in order to achieve the agenda of cutting social spending.
Hard to see how deliberately attacking the budget in order to push through an ideological agenda isn't fiscal terrorism.
There you go deflecting again. It's the spending kid, plain and simple.
No, no, no...again, Brownback and Laffer and the Conservatives made the promise that his tax cuts would be "a shot of adrenaline" into the arm of Kansas' economy. They weren't. So all those revenue projections that were made based on that fantasy were not met, which means
the tax cuts did not fulfill their promise or duty or whatever.
o you always rant like a child when you don't get what you want? Nobody owes you a thing kid, most of who are Adults understand that concept.
**** you, loser. I like how you completely avoid the factual reality of the consequences of your policy. Wait, did I say "like"? I meant, "I ******* hate". So when faced with the real-world issues that arise from your flawed policy, your response is to act like a ******* child? Get over yourself.
Just more "I want it, you owe it to me, so give it to me". Again child, you don't get everything you want, you never will. Didn't daddy and mommy teach you that?
There used to be a time when you could attend a state university or college for nothing or next-to-nothing. As recent as 20 years ago, that was the case. But then something happened. That something was the tax cut-fever that gripped this country, pushed by know-nothings like you who could really care less about balancing budgets and economic growth and were instead looking for a way to cut social spending you are ideologically opposed to. So all these states cut taxes. When those tax cuts failed to meet revenue projections, the states all started raising tuition costs. So what used to cost someone $2K to attend a state school for one year, now costs nearly 5 times that because states cut funding for education, which caused tuition to rise, which caused students to borrow more.
I know that you oppose people being educated and with good reason; the more educated someone is, the less likely they are to buy your bullshit.