For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century.
Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.
You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.
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