Could somebody tell me when \u201cno tax decreases, ever!\u201d became lefty dogma ?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s such a weird position to take. On one hand, the idea that we need to increase revenues (now!<\/b>) completely synchronizes with the right\u2019s insistence that the deficit is going to murder us all in our sleep. And it completely synchronizes with the right\u2019s insistence that the left is nothing but a bunch of tax-and-spenders. <\/p>\n
But sometimes, tax breaks help people - especially tax breaks on low earners during times of economic hardship*<\/sup> ! <\/p>\n This is just baffling. If possible, I\u2019d like to file a formal complaint with the Lefty Dogma Committee about this. When are they meeting next?<\/p>\n * [insert long discussion about the Laffer curve here]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Could somebody tell me when \u201cno tax decreases, ever!\u201d became lefty dogma ? It\u2019s such a weird position to take. On one hand, the idea that we need to increase revenues (now!) completely synchronizes with the right\u2019s insistence that the deficit is going to murder us all in our sleep. And it completely synchronizes with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}