I understand there's a tiny fringe of vocal people who are constantly predicting doom, for various reasons, but I don't understand how you can characterize thes

I understand there's a tiny fringe of vocal people who are constantly predicting doom, for various reasons, but I don't understand how you can characterize these people being wrong as victory for your opinion, nor why this is, to quote the HN guidelines, "of interest to hackers". I think even the median Tea Partier, if you put the irons to his feet, would admit that tax increases cannot by themselves blast away several percent worth of economic growth. There is certainly some small minority of people who think otherwise, out of whom the author of this article would happily build a large straw man.