Quote from IanMacQuaide:
libertad, your question confuses me. Is it smartass rhetorical?
Here's what the article said, for the main points at least:
""âThus Barro and Perotti are saying that each $1 increase in government spending reduces private spending by about $1, with no net benefit to GDP. All that is left is a higher level of government debt creating slower economic growth.â
âThe most extensive research on tax multipliers is found in a paper written at the University of California Berkeley entitled The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a new Measure of Fiscal Shocks, by Christina D. and David H. Romer (March 2007). (Christina Romer now chairs the presidentâs Council of Economic Advisors). This study found that the tax multiplier is 3, meaning that each dollar rise in taxes will reduce private spending by $3.â""
So, the more we're taxed the less we consume.
When our disposable income is reduced, we have less disposable income. How astute.