2,000 Days of DDO: When in Recession, Taxes Should be Lowered

Sorry for the late post. Refutations1. 1920-1921 RecessionMy opponent is trying to get one by you. Tax decreases did not end the depression of 1920. What ended it, hilariously enough, is the government supporting welfare programs for the unemployed, which actually required taxes to be funded. My opponent is citing two unrelated things here. The recession, and then the tax decrease. There is no correlary between the two. And in fact, even more hilariously, according to the graph that my opponent shows on tax increase and decrease, raising taxes is what pulled us out of the Great Depression. Hilarious, no? . http://en.wikipedia.org...2. 1981-1982 RecessionMy opponent is forgetting that Ronald Reagan raised taxes as well. This turned out to be equally good for the country, if not better. It is worth noting that Reagan raised taxes multiple times, and supposed to lowering them only once. My opponent is saying that lowering taxes is good for a recession, however clearly Regean, who he cites, thought raising taxes was better. . http://www.politifact.com...ArgumentHere is a quote from the Huffington Post (. http://www.huffingtonpost.com...) "Economists ignore, or treat as relatively unimportant since they have more trouble understanding it, the most critical element of an economic recovery: individual and group human psychology, aka, confidence"What Paul Abrams is getting at here is that when we raise taxes, the government gets more money, which can be used to improve our infrastructure and to secure our nation's future. Do you know what happens when we invest tax money in to schools? Kids get smarter! And do you know what happens with smart kids? They become smart adults, and they in turn improve our nation by providing the science, art, and engineering that makes our nation as great as it is today. When we improve our country with tax money, we are insuring that we will have a better future. It's really simple if you think about it. More taxes, more money for the government, pump it back into education, public services, etc. , better future. This, is how we get out of recessions. Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize Award Winning Economist, likes to use the analogy of an alien invasion (if you are interested, he has written a book called End this depression now! Which is all about how raising taxes improves our infrastructure and will inevitably help us end our depression). Anyways, back to the alien invasion. Imagine that aliens declare war on our nation. What do we do? We need to prepare! We strengthen and fortify our military, pump money into education to train people how to fight the aliens and create anti-alien weaponry, all of which improves our nations country (we fund all this by raising taxes). So, now let's imagine that after all this it was a hoax. There are no aliens, and the declaration of war is a joke. Now we have smarter students, a more capable military, and a better nation. Now, to get on to some real numbers: Bill Clinton raised taxes during his presidency and the economy produced jobs faster than ever before. . http://www.marketplace.org...Reagan raised taxes eleven times, and greatly improved our infrastructure and economy by doing so. . http://www.politifact.com...So, in conclusion, to tie this in to the resolution, we should not lower taxes when in recession. All my opponent has done is showed pictures and graphs, thinking he can sway you. He has provided no reasoning for lowering taxes, so how can we trust him? We want reasons that lowering taxes is a good thing to do. In fact, after checking the arguments, the only reasoning he gives is that Ronald Reagan did it to "bring economic growth". Maybe some explanation would be cool. That being said, I have proven with reasoning that raising our taxes makes our country better. I rest my case.