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People Can Also Change The Timing Of When They Earn And Receive Their Income In Response To Government Policies.

The Zero-income-tax-rate States Have Far Faster Growth In Tax Revenues Than Did The States With Highest Income Tax Rate Over This Period.

Let Me Just Try To Give You Sort Of The Intuitive One Here On The Stimulus Funds. If You Have A Two-person Economy - Let's Imagine We Have Two Farms, And That's The Whole World, Just Two Farms. If One Of Those Farmers Gets Unemployment Benefits, Who Do You Think Pays For Him? Am I Going Way Over Your Heads Today?

I Think The Inflation Prospects For The U.s. Over The Next Five Or Six, Seven Years, Are Quite Serious. You Cannot Have A Bumper Crop In Apples Without The Value Or The Price Of Each Apple Falling. The Fed Has Had The Largest Increase In The Monetary Base In The History Of The U.s., From Colonial Times To The Present, Times Ten.

Let's Take The Nine States That Have No Income Tax And Compare Them With The Nine States With The Highest Income Tax Rates In The Nation. If You Look At The Economic Metrics Over The Last Decade For Both Groups, The Zero-income-tax-rate States Outperform The Highest-income-tax-rate States By A Fairly Sizable Amount.