Supply Side Motto: Just wait, not yet…
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What signs would those be?
Revenues were set to increase quite a bit and now that has been reversed and may even go negative by the end of the FY. And outlays are continuing to increase at a higher rate. Yay for deficit fueled economic gain! There was this group of people that used to poo poo on that, but they haven’t showed up in quite some time. Makes one think they were full of ■■■■■
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The only thing negative is your mindset and it isn’t Armageddon as Pelosi stated.
@adroit provides facts, and your retort is that he just has a negative mindset? I guess that is your version of alternative facts?
The deficit and debt are climbing at unprecedented rates to set new records. Businesses are laying off workers because of the decision by Trump to raise taxes on all American consumers, businesses, and farmers. Wages are stagnant as fewer jobs were added in the first 18 months of the Trump Presidency than were added in the last 18 months of the Obama Presidency. And on top of it all, we are taking in far less in tax receipts than last year, and may end the year in negative territory. These are all facts. And your suggestion is that if people were just more positive in the face of these facts…what? Something, something, something, MAGA?
No, it’s an empirical fact that monthly revenues have been negative compared to the same month a year prior. We are about $23 billion away from going negative YOY for FY2018. I don’t think that’s ever happened in an expansion period.
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Trump twitter feed of course, what other sign can be trusted?
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So next year after the benefits from the tax decrease kick in, you’ll admit you were wrong? Let’s remember this, same bat time, same bat channel…next year.
Next year there will still be a deficit.
Absolutely. We can use the June 2017 CBO baseline [1] which was operating under no assumptions from the tax law. If we don’t reach revenues comparable to that baseline, I’ll say I was wrong 
Well, I think we’ve credited Trump with the unemployment numbers from the moment he took office. I certainly have. But I have noted that they aren’t much different than Obama’s unemployment numbers over his last year. Those are the numbers that Trump and you conservatives called fake. You remember that, don’t you?
Out of caution I have kept my withholding higher than it most likely needs to be yes, next year I will have a better idea of what it needs to be.
And yes both sides always claim victory because it is impossible to conclusively prove what economic growth would have been with and without tax cuts. But if you want an example, look at the economic recovery after the Reagan tax cuts and compare it to the dismal Obama recovery.
Awfully silly to compare two vastly different recessions.
There are far better and more scientific ways of doing it. I don’t think you’re going to like the outcome though.
Also, let’s not forget that the new tax bill has caused the federal deficit to jump 20% this year alone.
Spending outpaced revenue between the beginning of the fiscal year, on Oct. 1, and July by $682 billion, $116 billion more than over the same period in the last fiscal year.
I thought Republicans were all about fiscal responsibility, however I now realize they were just full of ■■■■■
Are there still any reasonable supply sliders who think that idea works? It’s been disproven so many times, but I guess Trumpers think he can magically will it to increased revenue.
Lol. Gotta love the insanity theory as it plays out before our eyes.
Somebody in this thread referenced “reasonable supply siders.”
I’m going to stop my hunt for Bigfoot to find these elusive beasts.
Yep. And I’m going to petition the cast of Ghost Hunters to hunt down a successful supply side story.
Republicans haven’t actually been about fiscal responsibility since Jimmy Carter.
