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by wvenable
3669 days ago
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Starving the beast doesn't work -- programs and infrastructure you want funded aren't and programs you don't want supported are fully funded. This has always been the way. Furthermore, under funded governments tend to much more corrupt. You also can't lower taxes without hurting employment and nobody wants higher unemployment. |
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This is counter to virtually everything I've seen asserted about economics, as well as the raw world data on hours worked compared to tax rates.
There is a "leisure effect" whereby getting more money for the same amount of work (the effect of lowering taxes) means that people choose additional leisure over additional work, because they don't need the extra money from additional work as badly. It is much less strong than the effect whereby raising the returns on work leads people to do more of it, because they're getting more out of the extra work than they used to.
What are you thinking of when you make this claim?