Faulty Memories

Faulty Memories

In watching diverse tidings speak shows over the yesteryear few weeks, I bring seen Democratic partisans brand the next argument:

President Obama but wants to supply superlative revenue enhancement rates to where they where inwards the 1990s nether President Clinton. And that was a nifty fourth dimension for the US of America economy. So i shouldn't live on concerned nigh the touching on of higher revenue enhancement rates.

There are 2 things wrong with this. 

First, the premise is incorrect.  President Obama wants to enhance income revenue enhancement rates to where they were during the Clinton years.  But because he has already raised the payroll revenue enhancement equally component subdivision of his healthcare reform (and too expanded the base of operations of this tax to unearned income), the total revenue enhancement charge per unit of measurement nether President Obama's proposal would overstep that during the Clinton years.  All economists concord that it is the full revenue enhancement charge per unit of measurement that matters.

Second, it is worth remembering that the Clinton nail was inwards large mensurate driven yesteryear the dot-com bubble, which was coming to an unhappy conclusion during President Clinton's concluding twelvemonth inwards office.  (By the way, as I recall, President Bush did non pass equally much time blaming his predecessor for bequeathing him a sick economy as President Obama has.)   It seems unlikely that President Obama's revenue enhancement growth volition tumble out to coincide amongst to a greater extent than or less other technological bubble that volition drive the economic scheme forward.

Reasonable people tin disagree nigh the virtues of raising the superlative revenue enhancement rate.  But it is of import to split valid arguments from political spin based on a faulty recollection of history.
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