The Idiotic GOP ‘Laffer Curve’ Fantasy Is Back, Baby! … from Crooks & Liars Heather

Here we go again with the Republican fantasy that the tax cuts for the rich they’re planning — while also slashing our social safety nets — are going to pay for themselves.

Fox Business Network’s Elizabeth MacDonald spoke to House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green this Wednesday about the Republican’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” they’re trying to get passed before the holiday, and both MacDonald and Green were happy to push the notion that Art Laffer’s trickle-down economics were finally going to work this time.

Laffer should have been laughed out of polite society a long time ago, but that won’t stop the supply-side liars like MacDonald and Green from continuing to lie about his disproven theories over and over again as they did here while completely ignoring all of the devastating impacts their agenda will have if they manage to get their cruel, heartless bill passed by the weekend.

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