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I’m binging through old episodes and I’m up to this one. This is the second episode where you say Republicans have no evidence that lowering tax rates has been repeatedly disproven to raise revenue. Can you provide support for this?
It appears there’re many cases when lowering tax rates have increased revenue, including under JFK. https://www.heritage.org/taxes/report/the-historical-lessons-lower-tax-rates
The Kennedy tax cut is a dubious case. Incomes were rising rapidly during that period anyway. There’s a huge difference between saying “the loss of revenue from this tax cut will be made up in a few years by economic growth” and saying “the loss of revenue from this tax cut will be made up in a few years by economic growth *that would not have happened but for the tax cut.*” The Federal government *raised* taxes under Clinton and supply-side advocates predicted a deep recession. Instead, the US got economic growth that exceeded what came after the Reagan tax cuts of 1981. The link between tax rates and economic growth is not so simple. I would also note this 2012 survey of leading economists by the University of Chicago School of Business, in which not one of the respondents was willing to agree with the claim that tax cuts pay for themselves in economic growth: https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/laffer-curve/