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- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: A Supply Side Call to Arms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.180808.5665@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:08:08 EST
- References: <1992Nov14.172226.5605@desire.wright.edu> <1992Nov15.190249.11564@midway.uchicago.edu> <0#F=S+-@engin.umich.edu> <56352@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <56352@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- > In article <0#F=S+-@engin.umich.edu> jwh@citi.umich.edu writes:
- >>I don't know, spending under Bush rose 28%. Spending as a percentage
- >>of GNP went from approx. 21% to over 25%. Shouldn't we be seeing
- >>the wonders of Keynesian deficit spending? We've increased spending
- >>and the economy has gone flat. Seems like there is more to getting
- >>the economy going that spending more money.
- >>
- >
- > What form of Keynsianism suggests that all government spending is
- > equivalent? Under Reagan/Bush government expenditures for arms and
- > interest on the debt and on federal employees all rose sharply, while
- > the government did not buy much of value of the productive economy:
- > bridges, roads, educations, ... IMHO, if one goes on a spending binge
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- So, assuming your statments are true, we have yet more proof that the
- deficits did not fuel the boom.
-
- > and emerges having purchased junk, one is in a significantly worse position
- > than someone who purchases valuable items.
-
- So we should not have seen an annual growth rate of 3.5% in the GDP,
- right?
-
- Brett
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- 80s: 18 million new jobs, deficits down (%GNP), tax rates down, tax revenues up
- GNP up, inflation down, unemployment down, interest rates down, cold war won
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