The Bush Tax Cuts have had a negative impact on the US Economy

Hmm... You complain about how boring I am to debate, and now accept an open challenge to debate me? Sounds good to me. In your next round, include the explanation of what Marxism really is. I'm STILL waiting for that... You fail to distinguish between the difference of the Bush Tax cuts and the tax cuts or hikes put in place by the other Presidents. "when taxes go up, revenues go DOWN, when taxes go down, revenues go UP, this is FACT, not debatable" Your logic is half-baked and put into a nearsighted perspective. You take into account the effects of the tax break without taking into account the entire spectrum. It is, however, certainly more than debatable. You are flat out wrong. Many economists, mostly conservative, such as Gregory Mankiw, former chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, assert that the tax cuts have had a substantial net negative impact on revenues, including taking into account any stimulative effect the tax cuts may have had and any resulting revenue feedback effects. I'll try to explain it in your simple language: A professional Macroeconomics adviser is more qualified to assess the net impact on revenues of the tax cuts than you are. You may be Mr. Conservative of debate.org, I'll give you that, but you are certainly not a former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, while Mr. Mankiw is. No matter how childish I am and knowledge I lack, I'd trust my Mr. Mankiw before you. You've lived twice my life, and are still wrong. DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since you didn't care enough to refute any of my assertions other than the net effect on revenues, I may have to assume that you agree with them. However, I know that no matter what I say, you will reply with a post of "you are evil and wrong and childish, i win", so I will also assume that you won't read what I am about to say: Using the principles of modern economics, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities states that 51% of the national debt from 2001-2006 was caused by the tax cuts [http://www.cbpp.org...]. A national debt causes a nation to borrow funds from another This decreases the demand for the dollar, and decreases its value on the international market, thus causing depreciation. This borrowing is harmful to the US economy because it: 1) Directly lowers GDP 2) Lowers the purchasing power of Americans 3) Further increases our debt when the dollar continues to decrease The massive borrowing allows countries such as China to control massive percentages of the US economy, thus allowing our enemies to hold us at ransom. China is a militaristic nation hiding itself as a capitalist one. The only real direct effect of the tax cuts was lowering the top marginal tax rate. This ignores every income bracket but the very highest. Passing such a drastic tax cut percentage to the highest level of income drastically increased the amount of dollars in the market. This caused inflation. To fight off the inflation, the Feds have been raising the interest rates, thus popping the housing bubble and leading to the mortgage crisis. On your behalf, I will mention the one benefit to passing the Bush tax cuts: there has been a statistical decrease in unemployment and increase in the number of jobs in the US. This applies to the laws of the Laffer Curve. However because of the debt handed down to the citizens from the government by interest rates, the inflation is higher than before the Bush tax cuts while the total change in jobs is minute in comparison. I await your refutations. Scratch that, I mean rants. Your favorite liberal, The Colonel