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1. Because the tax cuts have not created a surplus. They been paid for by increasing the debt.

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Fri Dec 7, 2012, 10:48 AM

Dec 2012

The overall tax rates have been cut to a level that is unsustainable. The theory that if you keep cutting taxes that the economy rapidly expands and creates more revenue has been proven to be unfounded.

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Because the tax cuts have not created a surplus. They been paid for by increasing the debt. Democratopia Dec 2012 #1