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re: Is it a prerequisite to be intellectually dishonest to be a Dim?
Posted on 6/12/19 at 1:45 pm to BamaAtl
Posted on 6/12/19 at 1:45 pm to BamaAtl
quote:Tax revenues rose 2% to $2.041 trillion in the first seven months of fiscal 2019.
You guys know tax cuts don't pay for themselves
Tax revenue from higher corporate profits significantly offset lower rates.
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Tax Revenue Keeps Rising
The federal deficit is increasing, and the reason is spending.
May 12, 2019
You wouldn’t know it from the press coverage, but there’s some modest good news about the federal budget. The deficit is rising, but not as much as feared because tax revenues are increasing due to faster economic growth.
The Congressional Budget Office reports in its April budget review that revenues rose 2% to $2.041 trillion in the first seven months of fiscal 2019 from a year ago. Payroll tax revenue rose 4.7% due in part to rising employment and wages.
... April was the deadline for final 2018 tax payments for most corporations, and tax revenue from higher corporate profits partly offset the lower rate.
Overall revenues increased despite a sharp decline in payments to the Treasury from the Federal Reserve of $15 billion, or 34%. The decline is due to higher short-term interest rates that lead the Fed to pay banks more interest on their reserves. Watch this account closely in the future if the Fed’s reserve payments become a net Treasury drain. This is one cost of the Fed maintaining a very large balance sheet.
So why has the federal deficit increased by $145 billion this fiscal year to $531 billion? Because federal spending continued to rise rapidly—
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Posted on 6/12/19 at 2:40 pm to NC_Tigah
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NC_Tigah
GOP Leader Concedes Tax Bill Won't Pay for Itself
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Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), a lead architect of the GOP tax bill, suggested the tax cuts may not fully pay for themselves, contradicting a promise Republicans made repeatedly while pushing the law in late 2017, the Washington Post reports.
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