The Glade 4.0

Just curious.

/looks at the Bush Administration years

/chooses option 1

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Neither. The question posits nothing about spending changing, other than it doesn't decrease.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

I assumed static spending, given as it wasn't addressed.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Whoops, yeah I should have specified that. I intended spending to remain static.

That's what I assumed, too.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

It's still vague. Is the increase/decrease in today's dollars or the dollars of some unspecified point in the future?

It's a horrible question. So, give me more information and I'll answer; as it stands, could be either.

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Or as %GDP.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

With our current taxation rates I will go with option B. at 1-2% taxation I would say option A.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Yeah, I really didn't intend it to be a rigorous poll; just sort of a temperature-taking question. The standard talking points from Republican politicians these days are that we need to cut taxes and reduce the deficit. On the spending side, though, they want to expand/extend our Defense spending, and the political reality is that they won't touch Medicare or Social Security with a ten foot pole. Since Defense, Medicare, and Social Security add up to more than two-thirds of the budget, the only way their math adds up is if you assume that cutting taxes will substantially increase actual tax revenues. I was just curious how people here feel about that proposition as a general matter without all the political baggage I just talked about.

missing lots of data.

obviously, cutting taxes to zero, for example, would not increase revenue.

Is someone thinking of the Laffer Curve or is this totally tongue in cheek?

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Not meant to be tongue in cheek. I'm sure the Laffer Curve is the foundation of the Republican claims re the deficit, and I just wanted to see what the general reaction of the Glade is to the bare claim being made (i.e. cut taxes, keep spending, yet still reduce the deficit).

Is reduction of purchasing power considered a "tax revenue"? How measured? By money supply metrics, PPP or CPI indecies?

Revenues from taxes that are assessed will obviously go down, but spending gets paid for, one way or another.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

When has spending ever been static?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

My opinion is that we're never going to get out of the hole we're in without spending reductions. It's going to be painful, but I don't see any way around it.

Republican math always reminds me of this.

Fixed it for ya

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Holy shitsnacks!