As soon as you admit that cutting tax rates, can and routinely does result in increased tax revenue, from an increase in the economy.
You might want to sit down before I tell you what your propagandists who fed you that stupid meme didn't tell you.
Ready?
Tax revenues have also increased after tax rates were increased.
Go ahead. See for yourself. Look at federal revenues after Clinton hiked tax rates. And then look at federal revenues after Obama hiked tax rates.
I'm sure this knowledge won't stop you from repeating your idiotic half-lie meme, though.
I have no doubt of that whatsoever.
Here is a history of tax rates:
https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/fed_individual_rate_history_nominal.pdf
Notice how tax rates increased under Bill Clinton in 1993. The top marginal rate increased from 31 percent to 39.6 percent, and stayed that way until 2001.
Now here is a history of federal revenues:
Who Really Pays Uncle Sam's Bills?
Notice how tax revenues INCREASED after the tax rates went UP:
- FY 2000 - $2.03 trillion
- FY 1999 - $1.82 trillion.
- FY 1998 - $1.72 trillion.
- FY 1997 - $1.58 trillion.
- FY 1996 - $1.45 trillion.
- FY 1995 - $1.35 trillion.
- FY 1994 - $1.26 trillion.
- FY 1993 - $1.15 trillion.
- FY 1992 - $1.09 trillion.
- FY 1991 - $1.05 trillion.
Just a few years after Clinton's tax increase, federal revenues had
DOUBLED!!!
And after the Bush tax cut expired on the top marginal rate during the Obama regime, federal revenues continued to increase:
- FY 2017 - $3.32 trillion.
- FY 2016 - $3.27 trillion.
- FY 2015 - $3.25 trillion.
- FY 2014 - $3.02 trillion.
- FY 2013 - $2.77 trillion.
Ain't that a *****?
As I have posted on this forum many times, the 10 years prior to Reagan's tax cuts, revenue increased at an average of 12.41%, the 10 years after it increased only at a 5.68% average per year.
The 10 years prior to the Bush II tax cuts revenue increased at an average rate of 6.1%, the 10 after it was down to 1.87%.
Tax cuts always slow revenue growth.
There is not one example of tax revenue growing faster after a tax cut than before.
I never said it would grow 'faster'.
If I spend $1,000 a year. And then my income is $1,000, and this year it only grows by $100. Slower than any other year.....
How do you end up with debt? You don't. The only way you end up with debt, is if your spending increases faster than your income.
Debt only happens when you increase your spending to more than your income. If you control your spending, it won't matter if your income increases by a little, or a lot, you'll never end up in debt.
In order for a tax cut to result in debt, you have to prove that revenue went DOWN. There is no such example of revenue decreasing after a reasonable tax cut.
We on the right-wing have always said, we want spending to DECREASE. We want spending to be CUT.
Cut the spending. We are spending to much. Entitlements take up almost 2/3rds of the entire budget. It's too much.
And by the way... one of the major reasons we're against higher taxes is because the way the people on the left work, it's never enough. You look at Europe, they all pay double the taxes we pay, and they still demand more.
No matter how high the taxes go, no matter how many trillions the government collects.... it's never enough. You always want more.
So... no. The answer is no. You don't get anymore money. You cut spending. The spoiled brat syndrome needs to end.