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Fact Check: Larry Kudlow's Revenue Deception
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Fact-Check-Larry-Kudlows-Revenue-Deception-507061711.html
Federal revenues were down slightly in calendar year 2018, the first full year under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, compared with the previous year
By Eugene Kiely
Published Mar 12, 2019 at 6:27 PM | Updated at 6:27 PM CDT on Mar 12, 2019
Fact Check: Larry Kudlow's Revenue Deception
AP
White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019.
On the day the Trump administration released its fiscal 2020 budget, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow misleadingly claimed that overall revenues are up about 10 percent. In fact, federal revenues are down since the Republican tax cuts became law.
Federal revenues were down slightly in calendar year 2018, the first full year under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, compared with the previous year, according to Treasury Department data. Federal receipts also were down slightly in the first five months of fiscal year 2019 compared with the same period a year ago, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, discussed federal revenue during a March 11 interview with Judy Woodruff, the host of PBS NewsHour. Earlier that day, the White House released its fiscal 2020 budget which assumes stronger economic growth in 2019 than economic experts have estimated.
The White House budget expects real gross domestic product growth (which is adjusted for inflation) will be 3.2 percent in 2019 nearly a full percentage point higher than the most recent median forecast of the Federal Reserve Board members and Federal Reserve Bank presidents. In a statement released Dec. 19, the Fed projected 2.3 percent growth in 2019...................................
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Fact Check: Larry Kudlow's Revenue Deception #TrumpTaxSCAM #GOPtaxSCAM (Original Post)
riversedge
Mar 2019
OP
underpants
(182,753 posts)1. Kudlow just mixed up results from Trump's DC hotel
and golf cart rentals
True Blue American
(17,982 posts)2. Larry Kudlow
Has been wrong in every prediction he ever made. That is why Trump hired him.
Larry and Jim are the worst.
watoos
(7,142 posts)3. Why not go with what the CBO projects? 1.9%
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)4. Krudlow is a krap artist
procon
(15,805 posts)5. Fake math. nt