Saturday, February 20, 2016

Ted Cruz Flattens Liberal Tax Policy Center

Fiscal Policy: Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Republicans propose pro-growth tax reform to boost the economy, and liberals indignantly shout out: “tax cut for the rich.”
Everyone knows the current tax code is a millstone around the neck of our economy. Almost all the Republicans running for president have admirable tax plans, and one of the best is the flat tax proposed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz that would lower business taxes to 16% on net business income and 10% on personal income — wages, salaries, capital gains and dividends.
The Tax Foundation says it would boost wages, output and net income about 10% over the next decade — which is an extra $2.5 trillion in GDP and millions of new jobs.
Right on cue, the leftwing Tax Policy Center has trashed the plan, calling it a tax cut for the rich and an $8.6 trillion increase in the debt over 10 years. And the lapdogs of the liberal media ate it up.
The TPC has about zero credibility on these issues. Its tax models predicted the Reagan tax cuts would lead to massive revenue losses and that the Clinton-era capital gains cut would blow a hole in the deficit. In both cases revenues didn’t shrink — they swelled. And the share of taxes paid by the rich soared in each case.
Read the rest of this IBD editorial HERE.

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1 comment:

cimbri said...

Cruz knows the conservative lingo, he just has never gotten any good results from his self proclaimed conservative ideology. He tried to pass illegal alien amnesty in 2013, and put in an amendment to make the bill more acceptable to conservatives. It didn't work - the Senate passed it anyway, and Republicans were able to stop immigration reform due to Congressman Cantor being defeated in Virginia.