increasing taxes, as a practical matter, is necessary for the financial well being of the USA*

My CaseThe Laffer Curve"one. i don't see any reason your single study should trump years of consensus. at best, you have an outlier study. at worst, you're disagreeing with tons of reputable people, people more reputable than us. you have not specified enough fo the reasoning that we must all the sudden accept a single study. you've presented a blanket citation, without much to back it up in terms of reasoning etc."It used to be the consensus, but it is no longer due to the new studies. The people you are discussing rely on older data, but his is new information and that is why it is far better to use than outdated information. Also, the study is not only information out there to prove this, as illustrated by the Learn Liberty video I will post."second. even that study says while it thinks we must magically be at the tipping point of the parabola, increasing taxes to reduce the deficit isn't necessarily a wrong approach. why not go with that exception, what's preventing us? who knows why that's the case, maybe cause it's better to accept less revenue with the certainty we will pay the deficit and take care of our obligations. i dont know, but even that study says so."The risk of raising taxes is less economic growth. Also, I have proved with several historical examples that the lower rate the better the economic growth. Income mobility increases dramatically which leads to more tax revenue because they would be of a higher income."last. it's hard to get around raw data. years of revenue to the government at an average of almost seventy percent, and the revenue has been around 18%. this is not really disputable, while the methods and such of that study are disputable, especially again with so much argument against that study. this almost necessitates that it's skewed to the right parabola, cause it's not gone down much just stays the same roughtly, skewed a bunch to the right."We have to look further than how much of GDP the government revenue is. Every time taxes are lowered, we get more revenue. Tax increases create less revenue because it drops people to lower brackets and makes them hide their money. They could instead be putting it into the economy with a simple smaller rate."with so much uncetainty, it seems the best decision is to defer to social security workers, and others. sure we can have everyone have some skin in the game to some extent, cuts and increases, a balanced approach... but the bottomline is we should at least see what happens if we increase taxes, before we ask the poorest and everyone else dependent on programs to such it up. you're asking so much based on some obscure study to risk you being right."I have used more than a study to prove that lower tax rates are better tax rates. Look at the history and you seem to have given up on refuting it."at least, all this must be the case as you've not really established how we can keep all these programs as they are, and still cut taxes, or even keep taxes as they are. you keep ignoring it, almost making it seem like a polititican who faces the truth and doesnt want to state what he must be really thinking, that he expects the elderly and poor to suck it up in terms of lifestyle and health care."This debate was primarily about tax rates as the title says. Your argument is:"increasing taxes, as a practical matter, is necessary for the financial well being of the USA,,, aside from utilizing government health care to save money."If you mean getting the government out of healthcare, I'm all for it. However, this debate was not about cutting spending. You argued that increasing taxes is necessary for the United States to be financially well. I must argue that it is not. In the rest of your opening statement, you talked about budget cuts, but this was irrelevant to a debate that was strictly about taxes.ConclusionMy opponent dropped and has not properly refuted the historical examples I have provided. I was able to prove that the perfect tax rate is far less than what many people thought it once was. Even the creator of the curve, Arthur Laffer, says raising the tax rates to the 70s would be a bad idea in the the first video. My opponent never really made a case except the 18% of GDP argument, but I argued why taxes should not be increased because it would slow down economic growth meaning less financial progress. Vote Con!http://www.youtube.com...