
Originally Posted by
dpacrkk
I'm slightly curious what you think the population spread in the US is. First, Kansas is well within one standard deviation of the mean, so 68% of states fall within the same range as Kansas's population. Second, I'm guessing you didn't look it up: state revenues dropped (and shortfalls increased), GDP growth was 3.8% in a period of 4 years (compared to 7% nationally), employment increased 2.6% (compared to 6.5% nationally), culminating in state legislature (both houses controlled by the party you wouldn't expect) voted to raise taxes to undo the cuts. Neighboring and nearby states (OK, NE, AR, MO; i.e. in the "middle of nowhere") of comparable population (all within one standard deviation of the mean) experienced more employment and GDP growth.
It's been studied: there's no link between top income tax rate and economic growth. Looking at this "broader picture," the "last time it cut taxes," the economy declined after the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 before crashing in 2008. Looking again at the "broader picture," the economy grew in the 1990s after tax increases...
...She already answered you in plain English in this thread, but you apparently didn't read it (or misinterpreted it, zing!). Anyway, if somebody doesn't agree with an idea, they won't necessarily suddenly support it when they begin to personally benefit from it. That's not how codes of ethics work.
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