So I think what we have here is an all too typical case of political hypocrisy.

Your silliness over this is really weak. You can cause the graph to go up or down by the actions you stated for a moment in time. But a momentary positive rise is meaningless. It is what is sustained and averaged over time is the point.

You can not defend this claptrap of yours:

Reagan cut taxes, and revenues went DOWN. Bush Sr. raised taxes, and revenues went UP. Clinton raised taxes and revenues went UP. Bush Jr. cut taxes and revenues went DOWN.

If you were making any sense at all, Obama would go after the middle class with healthy doses of taxation. Why the middle class? Because they have the money. Get them now, while they have it and grow, grow, grow those revenues.

Of course, once you have squeezed the body dry, there is no more blood to give. You really should run for governor of California. It would be a great place to put your wisdom of taxation into place.

Then came the stimulus – something that was seen a absolutely vital to preventing us from sinking into a depression.

Such paranoia on the part of Dems, since the Republicans voted against this, seems rather odd given that most of the stimulus money hasn’t even been spent. I guess this is like how we MUST pass their health care plan NOW or everything will go to hell, even though it doesn’t take effect until 2013…

Is your comment supposed to be clever, or sarcastic, or something? What is your point? The quoted passage of mine refers to indisputable facts. You could look it up – just put “federal tax revenues historical” or something like that, into Google, and there ya go.

And the fact that these historical events are exactly contrary to the predictions of those who invoke the Laffer Curve to argue for more tax cuts (those people necessarily having to believe that we are on the right side of the curve, rather than the left, as the evidence shows) is also rather unambiguous.

There seems to be some strange pathology here – maybe it explains why it is so hard for some people to admit error. No heliotrope, you are NOT required to accept that everything I say is necessarily correct just because I am correct on this point.

So yeah, yours is a very bizarre comment. After essentially admitting you have no counter to my points, and doing this little over-the-top snarky comment about me being always right, you end with pretending that I am seeing the world upside down. Well, sorry, but you need to establish first that there is something wrong with my facts before you get to claim that. And you cannot do that, because the facts are correct.

So why all the mental gymnastics? I was correct about this point – deal with it like a grown up.

Reagan cut taxes, and revenues went DOWN. Bush Sr. raised taxes, and revenues went UP. Clinton raised taxes and revenues went UP. Bush Jr. cut taxes and revenues went DOWN.

Please don’t elaborate. We all know this is 24k truth and you have won the argument. From this day forward, we will believe everything you utter.

The world really looks quite different when you view it standing on your head. This will take getting used to. Does the tingling ever go away? How about the momentary blackouts?

Haven’t you seen the latest poll data highlighted in the most recent posts?

Yeah, and I’ve seen your bullshit spin on it too.

Vulgar ranting and name-calling is so August, and is a real turn off to those in the middle…

By my heel, I care not. I don’t concern myself with what’s a turn on to the spineless who don’t stand for anything and consider themselves the smartest people in the room for it. It is what it is. If you don’t like honesty, may I suggest the DailyKOShole. I know they would have language that you would approve of.

Haven’t you seen the latest poll data highlighted in the most recent posts? Vulgar ranting and name-calling is so August, and is a real turn off to those in the middle…

And, as I am sure you know, the Congressional Budget Office just scored the Baucus plan as better than deficit-neutral, it actually REDUCES the deficit.

And, as I am sure you know, the most glorious Baucus plan has a $40 billion dollar tax on medical devices and diagnostic tools. The cost, of course, will be passed onto the patients. Not to mention the fact that the tax will stifle R&D on new equipment and nobody will want to create anything new only to be robbed by Uncle Sugar.

In other words, your Team Killing FUCKTARD leaders are still looking for ways to legislate us into the third world.

I know that you rightwing extremists are impervious to evidence, bu this is a bit ridiculous.

What evidence would that be? All we have is your pile of bullshit you unloaded here. That’s not evidence. That’s desperation.

But of course, spinning babbling Tano ignores the facts and reality.

Federal revenue collections hit an all-time high in April, contributing to a further improvement in the budget deficit for the year.

So far this year, tax revenues total $1.505 trillion, an increase of 11.2 percent over the same period last year. That figure includes $383.6 billion collected in April, the largest monthly tax collection on record.

If the country were truly on the left-hand side, as spinning babbling Tano insists, tax revenues would a) never increase after tax cuts and b) would never set new records.

Notice how Tano projects and insists others are “impervious to facts”. As has been shown with the facts quoted, Tano is the one who is impervious. As is typical for intellectual and emotional children like Barack Obama and his supporters, Tano projects onto others his failings and stupidity.

Case in point:

Bush Jr. cut taxes and revenues went DOWN.

But before, when cornered by facts showing that, after the Bush tax cuts, tax revenue soared to record levels, Tano blabbered this.

Because of the Bush tax cuts, federal tax revenues did not recover to 2000 levels until 2005.

In short, Tano has already acknowledged that tax revenues ROSE….and then insists that tax revenues only went DOWN during the Bush administration.

The reason Tano is so ignorant is because he, like his Barack Obama, is dependent upon the government for checks. Barack Obama has never generated wealth; he’s always voted himself salary increases on his government paychecks. Neither of them can comprehend other than financial ruin from reducing the rate at which the government collects money. They pay no expenses, nor have they ever run a profitable business. They are parasites, incapable of creating wealth and only capable of destroying it.

And you, ILC are a real comedian.
The “Laffer Curve” merely illustrates the notion that tax cuts can lead to increased revenues IF one is on the righthand side of the curve. And tax cuts lead to decreased revenues if on the left hand side of the curve. And all the empirical evidence ever generated since the Laffer Curve was first discussed nationally, is that we are on the left hand side of the curve.

Reagan cut taxes, and revenues went DOWN. Bush Sr. raised taxes, and revenues went UP. Clinton raised taxes and revenues went UP. Bush Jr. cut taxes and revenues went DOWN.

I know that you rightwing extremists are impervious to evidence, bu this is a bit ridiculous.

HaH! Thats pretty funny ND30. YEah, FOUR YEARS LATER.
Because of the Bush tax cuts, federal tax revenues did not recover to 2000 levels until 2005.