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If you spend the taxes on productive things, infrastructure, subsidies, it seems like that grows the economy directly.

Cutting taxes and spending (ie austerity) has a more mixed track record of getting out of economic recessions, in my view.





empirically which countries have done what you are describing?

The United States?

Look at: the Internet, pharmaceuticals, automobile industry, energy industry, manufacturing

All downstream of massive government spending funded by taxes.


the United States has middle of the road taxes (if not overtly low)



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