projected influence and gross receipts (never take a cut of the net). If you're talking fact, no tax at all. We'll pilot on political theory; that should help to cut deficit terrorisim right there! [...] Institute are big proponents. It just describes and is not ideological. Here is a good primer. The Center of the Universe Blog Archive Updated: 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds It took me months to understand. I am just testing it out here today. Obviously there are already [...] Stipulating that your assertion of how taxes are used to control aggregate demand, is there any evidence that this technique does in fact have the intended controlling effect? Question: If the government doesn't tax because it needs the money to spend, why tax at all? Answer: The federal government taxes to regulate what economists call "aggregate demand" which is a fancy word for "spending power." In short, that means that if the economy is "too hot," then raising taxes will cool it down, and if it's "too cold," likewise, cutting taxes will warm it up. Taxes aren't about getting money to spend, they are about regulating our spending power to make sure we don't have too much and cause inflation, or too little which causes unemployment and recessions. William A. Niskanen, the chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute says: "judging by the last twenty-five years (plenty of time for a fair test), a tax cut of 1 percent of the GDP increases the rate of spending growth by