"Occupy" protesters find support among the 1%

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No. . .Laffer curves ONLY shows that cutting taxes work when taxes are super high. . .which they are not! Until taxes reach a "optimal" level, taxes bring more revenues, when taxes reach that "optimal level" the revenue begin to decrease.

The insfrastructure spending, and help to the unemployed have helped us to keep out of full blown depression. If the spending has been even greater, it would have been more effective.

Our infrastructre NEEDS (even without considering the need for jobs) to be renewed and/or maintained if we are to be competitive in a world wide economy. The state of disrepair and lack of innovation of our infrastructure takes us a little further down towards 3rd world country every year.

Tax cuts for the wealthy have been in place for the last TEN YEARS, and the state of our economy for the last 8 of those last 10 years has shown that tax cuts for the wealthy DIDN"T lead to more jobs or more revenues.

No Laffer explains that revenue doesn't vary much as a % of GDP and explains why.

I'm assuming that you are not aware that vast amounts of money intended for infrastructure spending over the years has been diverted to other things (social programs not th4r least of them). New Orleans provided a painful example of that.

If tax cuts didn't work then how did the4 unemployment rate get so very low under Bush ? Of course th4e Congressional inspired real estate crash wound up taking them but that does not negate what happened first.