Alan Greenspan To GOP: Let Bush Tax Cuts Lapse


The former Fed Chairman, Alan Greenspan, is now rebuking the popular GOP Supply-Side talking point (as trumpeted recently by Mitch McConnell) that tax cuts increase revenues, and therefore help reduce deficits:

http://www.alterpolitics.com/politics/alan-greenspan-to-gop-let-bush-tax-cuts-lapse/

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