A friend of mine posted the following chart on Facebook with the caption: “Clearly lower taxes isn’t the cure.”

I’m certainly no expert in economics, but my common sense approach says we need more details. It seems like it might be a span of 10 years? Is it a national demographic? How did they get the results? It could be a similar logical process to the Obama administration “saving or creating 2.5 million jo…

Just send him this, along with the comment “clearly, fewer pirates isn’t the cure.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PiratesVsTemp%28en%29.svg

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/graph_of_the_day_for_september_9.html Taxes were lower when they were higher.

Well, first of all, the figure for unemployment is pretty inaccurate: 1995 5.59 1996 5.41 1997 4.94 1998 4.50 1999 4.22 2000 3.97 2001 4.74 Bush, G.W. 2002 5.78 2003 5.99 …

So did your friend say anything back? Or crickets?

My response: Correlation lololol. Not an extremely in depth response but worthy of the argument. The thing about these “low tax rates=bad economy” is that no real reason is ever actually proposed… It’s more of an argument from faith than anything else.

Anyone want to help me debunk this???

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John_James May 19, 2012, 9:40pm 13

Well, at least we know now where he got it from.

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Anyone want to help me debunk this???

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