(06-09-2025, 08:10 AM)Jag149 Wrote:

(06-09-2025, 07:11 AM)mikesez Wrote: The existing tax cuts expire in 2027. 
Renewing them past 2027 adds more to the deficit.  It's just counting, not double counting.

They are in the economy currently. They are not an additional drag. I can see the one way street developing on this topic, so believe what you want, but they have been off by over 100% multiple times. Be fun to watch and see.

They are in the economy currently and each year they stay in, the federal government collects less revenue than it would have otherwise.
Whether the economy grows or shrinks is an uncertain, multivariate, second order effect.
Whether the tax bill is higher when the rate is 30% instead of 25% is a certain, single variable, first order effect.  You're missing the trees for the forest.  You're smarter than this.

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