Tax Cuts & Wars
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Few events boost an economy as effectively as war. Just ask FDR. FDR reaped the credit for having ended the Great Depression. Actually World War II ended the Great Depression. It also caused construction of the manufacturing machine that boosted the US into global economic and military super-power status it has held for decades.
Few people understand that when an economy goes to war it produces guns, ships, airplanes, assorted war materiel and economic and employment growth. In wartime, people work on jobs designing, developing, and manufacturing war materiel. Those employees work and get paid salaries. They then spend their salaries on housing, consumer goods, and luxuries.
Few economic policies boost an economy as effectively as tax cuts. Tax cuts pushed by JFK, Reagan and George W. Bush have in each case worked effectively to spur the economy. Today's tax cuts coupled with war are propelling the US economy into substantial growth. Today's US economic growth is being built upon an already substantial economy. US economic growth will likely not fail and be lost. However, the rapid economic growth observed in China, India, and other growing-very-rapidly economies may easily stumble into inflation, recession, and social instability.
US economic growth continues due to tax cuts and war even with record high oil and energy prices. These high prices will cause inventions and discoveries that will eventually eliminate Western civilization's need for any oil.
Growth Is Real:
The U.S. economy grew at a revised 5.6% annual rate in the first quarter of 2006. The US Commerce Department reports that this was the fastest growth in 2-1/2 years.
This economic growth explains why revenue to the US government is at an all-time record high.
Demonstrated again: When taxes are cut, the US government earns (takes) more money.
Some people may not care for certain politicians in Congress or the White House, but the tax and war policies of the US are expanding the economy, providing jobs, and keeping the US relatively safe amidst today's WWII -- World War III.