And less than 2 percent of the tax cuts enacted in that period were net reductions in sales and excise taxes. By contrast, income taxes fall more heavily on higher-income people. Yes, my friends, the beauty of this handy-dandy nostrum, guaranteed to cure the blues, eliminate bad breath, stop the heartbreak of psoriasis and end ring around the collar is that it is simple, the essence of simple, simplissimo. Something's simple here, all right, and it's anyone dumb enough to fall for this. Taking something simple and trying to make it complicated, and 2. taking something complicated and trying to make it simple.
Taxes are complicated.
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