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Usually when X "loses" money Y "gains" money. The verb itself is relative. A tax cut means the government collects less tax; so it has less money. That sounds l
by dkural 9y ago
Usually when X "loses" money Y "gains" money. The verb itself is relative. A tax cut means the government collects less tax; so it has less money. That sounds like a loss to me. I think it is deliberately dishonest to re-frame this well understood verb in any other way.
- bmmayer1 9y agoIt depends on whether you think the government should have that money.
- jachee 9y agoI'd trust the government to do useful-at-large things with it long before the top 1%.
- bmmayer1 9y agoWhy?
- dkural 9y agoI don't follow. A tax cut is called a cut because the gov looses some tax income. This is simply a fact & does not at all depend on anything you/I think about who should have money. Our politics depends on that, but not the facts.