Will unemployment sharply increase if the tax hikes on those making 250K+/year

steve w

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happens in 2011?
NO. The stimulus included tax's cuts and it did not have much effect and there is no reason to the tax hikes will either.

meg - First of all, WHICH "stimulus" are you referring to? Secondly, "tax cuts" for whom? If it was a "tax cut" for Joe Schmoe making only 10K a year, then of course that wouldn't stimulate job growth. And finally, it's been proven several times in our history cutting taxes across the board actually ends up generating larger revenues for the federal government. Apparently you are too young to remember the Reagan years.
And unemployment fell from about 9.7%in 1982 to 5.5% in 1988.
 
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