Don’t Let The Revenue-Neutral Mongers Block Tax Cuts

We can’t have tax cuts, cry the economic naysayers, because they will explode the deficit, raise interest rates, crowd out private investment, and increase unemployment.  (Funny that these concerns never warrant reducing spending, or even stop spending increases, on politically popular infrastructure, defense, entitlements, and most other federal government programs.)

But these same naysayers tell us that we will have low interest rates as far as the eye can see (or farther, as in the 30-year T-bond rate).

In the past 15 years, the federal government‘s public debt has quadrupled from $5 trillion to $20 trillion.  But none of the alleged adverse effects of sharply rising public debt have materialized.   Indeed, the unemployment rate has fallen from 10% in late 2009 to 4.3% in May 2017, while the 30-year Treasury bond rate has declined from 5.28% in June-July 2007 to 2.8% in early July 2017.  Hmmmm!

Maybe the naysayers’ fears will materialize sometime in the not-too-distant future, but that future does not seem to be around the corner.  The above data suggest that we can have a trillion or more dollars in cuts in marginal tax rates on business and individuals in an attempt to spark growth from a paltry 2% or less over the past 10 years to a more robust 3%.  And, we will be able to sleep at night without having to worry about inflation and unemployment rearing their ugly heads.