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Originally Posted by KMA-628
First, you should note that I have always taken issue with CBPP, anytime anyone has used them as a reference. They are hardly non-partisan and hardly accurate--see my past posts on them (i.e. SS threads).
Second, the irony in this is kinda funny.
In another thread, someone made outlandish claims about the "Bush tax cut" which I refuted with primary evidence (not from a think tank). Here is the claim:
Now, we look at the truth (posted in response to the above assertion):
Now, if tax revenue was "destroyed", how can the numbers being increasing?
If you look at the data, you will see a dip after 2001 that trended upward for 2004. This would make sense once you factor in the economic impact of 9/11 and a recession (that started before Bush took office).
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The previous assertions about Bush destroying tax revenues were made by you. I refuted it with the same exact evidence as I listed above--you never responded. In this case, I am repeating claims I have made here over and over again--I get tired of citing the same source when nobody bothers to reply.
Now, we have this comment:
A simple check with U.S. Department of Labor proves this to be a false claim as well. LINK
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KMA-628, your assertion that the CPBB is "Not non-partisan and hardly accurate", does not make it so:
Link to search results on the subjerct of CPBB accuracy:
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=FACT+CHECK+CBPP&btnG=Google+Search">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=FACT+CHECK+CBPP&btnG=Google+Search</a>
factcheck.org believes the CPBB to be independent:
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<a href="http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=149">http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=149</a>
$400-billion Deficits for next 10 years?...................
.......However, the Kerry ad accurately quotes an independent source, the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities . The CBPP predicts deficits exceeding $400 billion in each of the next 10 years if Congress makes Bush’s tax cuts permanent, enacts relief from the Alternative Minimum Tax before it affects many more middle-income taxpayers, and increases defense spending, all of which the CBPP deems likely to happen.
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The CPBB was also accurate in the report referred to in the above quote box:
<a href="http://www.cbpp.org/1-28-04bud.htm">http://www.cbpp.org/1-28-04bud.htm</a>
KMA, please link the actual posts where you dispute CPBB items, and I will gladly debate them with you.
The CBO link that you posted shows federal revenue down and
income tax at it's lowest percentage of GDP in many years,
7 percent vs. 10 percent in 2000. The federal revenue figures reinforce that recession did not start until 2001, and march 2001 seems to be the official "date of record" that most economists point to as the start date of the recession.