Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending

Re:Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending by legitster on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:21AM (#43049217)

Agreed that you need to liberalize housing policy. But one mistake Canada made is that they took a huge influx of wealthy, skilled immigrants.

In the US, immigrants are much poorer and come in at the bottom of the labor and housing markets.

But yes, anything besides raising taxes is irresponsible.

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Re:Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending by bediger4000 on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:35AM (#43049399)

Conservatives can't raise taxes. It's an article of faith, very literally, that taxes are bad, and that lowering taxes raises tax revenue.

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Re:Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending by toomuchtodo on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:39AM (#43049454)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist#Americans_for_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform

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Re:Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending by dave4420 on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:56AM (#43049707)

I don’t know what Republicans are these days, but they aren’t economic conservatives. That they think the Laffer curve kicks in at the level taxes are today is one of the giveaways.

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