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“Tax cuts always pay for themselves!”

What You Say

CBO and CRS score dynamic effects; they do not show large tax cuts routinely self-financing. Deficits after major cuts are a pattern, not a coincidence.

The Stab

If tax cuts paid for themselves, we would be drowning in surplus. We are not.

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