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kpete

(71,965 posts) Mon Sep 17, 2012, 04:46 PM Sep 2012

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Graph: Tax cuts don’t generate economic growth — they just generate more income inequality

Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth, a New 65-Year Study Finds

very good article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/tax-cuts-dont-lead-to-economic-growth-a-new-65-year-study-finds/262438/

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Graph: Tax cuts don’t generate economic growth — they just generate more income inequality (Original Post) kpete Sep 2012 OP

if growing income inequality is a consequence of economic growth BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #1

The real meat is in the PDF that the article references. Blanks Sep 2012 #2

BOG PERSON

(2,916 posts)

1. if growing income inequality is a consequence of economic growth

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:24 PM

Sep 2012

then maybe if the government *intentionally* causes income equality, the economy will grow retroactively??

Blanks

(4,835 posts)

2. The real meat is in the PDF that the article references.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:38 PM

Sep 2012

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/news/business/0915taxesandeconomy.pdf

Pretty good stuff.

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