• RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    To be clear it isn’t a theory. It really is an idea explained on a cocktail napkin. There seems to be a rate that if you reduce it under you get more recenue which worked once in 1983. There’s nothing to support further cuts though

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      15 hours ago

      I would not even say it worked once in 83. Lower rates are one possible reason but like anything with the economy there are plenty of factors including cyclical changes that could explain it.

      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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        15 hours ago

        By all indicators more money was moved back into the USA from abroad and tax revenues were up. That seems to suggest the idea has some degree of merit