Many people may remember Christina Romer, who was the chair of President Obamaâs Council of Economic Advisors from January 2009 to September 2010. She is currently an economics professor at University of California Berkeley.
Approximately three months before she left the Council of Economic Advisors, the American Economic Reviewâ a journal which many people consider the most prestigious peer-reviewed journal in economics â published an article that she co-wrote with her husband David Romer, also an economics professor at UC Berkeley. The article, âThe Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks,â is in my view one of the most important economic articles of the last several years.
The Romers examined the effects of tax policy on GDP. They found that the effects are very large. Specifically, they found that for every 1% that taxes rise (as a percent of GDP), this causes GDP to fall about 3%. The authors employed some clever methods to try to find what economists call âexogenousâ changes in tax rates. When they employed their methods, they found much higher effects than economists had previously found.
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first the progressives tell us that income taxes will never go over 2 percent.
then they lie about spending cuts for decodes.
Then taxes get above 50%.
Then taxes get lowered... we have a boom.
Now they want to raise taxes and tell us our leftists are not like france's leftists... we want go over 75%.
The whole fricken time the presidents economic advisor... Romer is telling him raising taxes will hurt gdp.
So why the hell are we raising taxes. If you know there is no good reason to do it... no tax level is safe.
Who the hell would believe a leftist would not raise taxes to 100 percent if he could.
publix has the credibility of a politician.