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"Presidents and Jobs" by Paul Krugman at the NY Times
Presidents and Jobsby Paul Krugman at the NY Times
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/presidents-and-jobs/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
"SNIP.........................
There are growing hints that if Republicans take the Senate, they will voodooize the CBO, making “dynamic scoring” — that is, the assumption that tax cuts sharply boost economic growth — a key feature of budget estimates. There is, of course, zero evidence for this proposition and lots of evidence against. For later reference, I thought I’d post a couple of charts, one that won’t surprise you and one that might.
.........................SNIP"