Lowering Taxes is not Beneficial to the Economy

This is turning into a fairly good debate. "The actual amount they are saving is not even worth the gas that it would take to drive their." Irrelevant. In fact, if they do all of their shopping in one visit within the three days of saving, then they actually use less gas than normal. You can't aviod spending money to get gas, but in this way, you can accomplish more in one trip. "Sales taxes are a very small part of what a person actually pays and in the end, the only benefactors are the store owners." Incorrect. The store owners are not the only benefactors. What about the factories that invented the products? What about the people working out in the field to process raw materials? What about the truckers who transported all of the goods from the factories to the stores? What about the TV shows that advertise the products that are bought? What about the people who actually work at the store? You need to remember all four levels of marketing. Many people benefit from every product you buy. "One of the root causes of the depression is the money ending up in only a few peoples hands." Dollar collapse, oil rise, inflation, housing bubble, global economy... Your root cause wasn't in the list given by your source. I've also already proved that the money ends up everywhere, not just in the hands of the rich? "The money being spent is money that the consumers will not have." Naturally. When you spend five dollars to buy something, you no longer have that five dollars. But at least you now own whatever it is that you bought, which you obviously thought was a fair exchange, or else you wouldn't have bought it. "With higher taxes, more money will be going towards the government." Nauturally. "Though they seem completely irrational..." At least we agree on that. "...these projects are actually a good way of returning money back into the economy." No. The easiest way to return money to the economy is to return it to the people. And if you're going to do that, you might as well not have taxed them so highly in the first place. The more people are taxed, the less money they have. The less money people have, the less money they spend. The less money people spend, the less money exchanges hands. And as Foir said, this leads to recession. "The government does not hog the money so much as the rich people do." And then some. The government does not hog money. It spends money. It spends more money than it has. Thus, America is in trillions of dollars of debt. The government should probably do more money-hogging. "By returning money back into the research and science industry, they also support more intellectual studies, which in the long term advance our country." The private sector should be funding these random R&D projects. They can improve the country like that. All that the government should do is rule over politics, not technology. "Giving the government money is a much better and safer idea than handing it to the rich." No. If you ever send money to the government, that money will soon disappear. The government spends more money than it has. The government can't even be trusted with our money. We trusted the government with our Social Security funds. Guess what they did with it? They spent it all. http://www.federalbudget.com... And that's also what they do with any heightened taxes. Of all places to keep our money, it is NOT with the government. It is with the economy.