View Single Post
Old 08-06-2012, 08:09 PM   #35
spence
Registered User
iTrader: (0)
 
spence's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,467
Quote:
Originally Posted by zimmy View Post
It is hard to know where these totally erroneous ideas come from. Federal revenue fell in 2001 from 2000, again in 2002 from 2001 and again in 2003 from 2002. Revenue did not get back to its 2000 level until 2005. More important, revenue as a share of G.D.P. was lower every year of the Bush presidency than it was in 2000."
Yea, trickle down works great when your economic growth is being fueled by a credit bubble!

-spence
spence is online now