>>>Nationally, we have to figure out a way to improve the national dialogue.
>>>I'm glad to see the NY Times giving less space to the groper stories and more to the wars and the tax bill.
>>>That's a start.
>>>It might be because one of their key DC reporters turned out to be a groper, but whatever the reason, it's a start.
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>Did you read in the NYT that 9 prominent economists now say reducing taxes will improve the current economy?
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Reducing taxes in itself is never a solution.

It's pointless until we reduce the size and scope of government.

That's the quintessential fraud of the Reagan years and so-called "supply side" economics. The goal was never to reduce the size of the govt - it was to create the so-called "supply side" to eventually INCREASE government revenue.

Through all of his double-talk during the 1980's, the only person who really ever breathed a word of truth about this (outside of the Austrian economists) was David Stockmann