Deficit Delusion

Why Everything Left, Right, and Supply-Side Tells You about the National Debt Is Wrong

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<b>There’s a growing consensus about the causes of budget deficits and the national debt. And that’s the problem.</b><br> <br> At present, members of the Left claim that higher rates of taxation levied on the rich are the fix, members of the Right call for a combination of spending cuts, tax increases and entitlement reform, while supply siders confidently assert that the path out of debt is tax cuts that will shower the Treasury with higher tax revenues borne of soaring economic growth. The solutions flamboyantly mistake the problem.<br> <br> In his latest and arguably most pathbreaking book, Parkview Institute president John Tamny asks readers to contemplate government debt in an all-new way, and in doing so makes a powerful case that deficits and the national debt will continue to grow precisely because left, right and supply side profoundly misunderstand why there’s debt in the first place.<br> <br> While the warring ideologies promote what they imagine are different solutions to the perceived debt problem, it’s lost on them that they’re basically saying the same thing: an insufficiency of federal tax revenue has resulted in deficits and debt that seemingly soar without endpoint. Tamny makes a case that the arguments fail repeatedly precisely because they’re backwards.<br> <br> Drawing on examples from private individuals and businesses, Tamny turns the debt discussion on its head. Far from a signal of insufficient revenue, Tamny shows that government debt is a logical and perilous effect of market optimism about rising tax revenues now, and much more dangerous, the expectation of exponentially more tax revenue in the future.<br> <br> Readers of <i>The Deficit Delusion</i> will gradually see the folly of a deficit and debt discussion that has grown stale and terribly confused, all the while looking at the Reagan tax cuts, skyrocketing government debt in California, entitlement reform, and the soaring national debt through an entirely different lens. Far fro

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9781510784857

Sprache

Englisch

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Buch

Maße

236 x 159 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Skyhorse Publishing