{"id":33130,"date":"2018-04-17T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33130"},"modified":"2018-04-18T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:21:38","slug":"pro-growth-or-no-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33130","title":{"rendered":"Pro-growth Or No-growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Guy Benson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Benson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Guy Benson<\/a> posted an article at <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2018\/04\/17\/tax-reform-ohio-good-news-kroger-n2471437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townhall<\/a> today about the impact of the Trump Tax Cuts on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Economy of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">American economy<\/a>. As has been pointed out by anyone with a brain, any deficits in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Washington (state)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=47.5,-120.5&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=47.5,-120.5 (Washington%20%28state%29)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Washington<\/a> are caused by a spending problem&#8211;not by a lack of tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The article includes a chart showing revised <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Economic growth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economic_growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">economic growth<\/a> estimates based on the growth that has already occurred because of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax cut\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax_cut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">tax cuts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NonfarmPayrollJobs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NonfarmPayrollJobs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NonfarmPayrollJobs.png 554w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NonfarmPayrollJobs-242x300.png 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Congressional Budget Office\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Congressional Budget Office<\/a> (CBO) now projects 156.8 million jobs in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">America<\/a> by year-end 2027\u20142.6 million more jobs than in its June 2017 Budget and Economic Outlook<em>. CBO attributes an average of 1.1 million additional jobs over the next 10 years to the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On April 10, I posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> detailing the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Democrats<\/a> plan to roll back the tax cuts and increase both personal and corporate taxes. That will bring us back to the slow economic growth we experienced under <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"WhiteHouse.gov\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">President Obama<\/a>. The Republicans need to make sure that the American voters understand that&#8211;a vote for a Democratic Congressman is a vote for economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>Economic policies do have consequences. That has become very obvious in the past year or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Benson posted an article at Townhall today about the impact of the Trump Tax Cuts on the American economy. As has been pointed out by anyone with a brain, any deficits in Washington are caused by a spending problem&#8211;not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10974,401,3753,1419,11620,11619,44],"class_list":["post-33130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congressional-budget-office-cbo","tag-economic-growth","tag-guy-benson","tag-tax-cut","tag-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act","tag-townhall","tag-united-states-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33147,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130\/revisions\/33147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}