Top Trump Economist to Launch Stink Bomb at the Tax Policy Center

Loyal Trump soldier 

Newly confirmed Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett is scheduled to give a major speech on Thursday. His first as chairman of the CEA.

The Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the left-leaning Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, just released an early analysis of Trump's tax reform.

The Center's conclusion, based on the sketchy details of the Tax Reform release, is:

[The Reform will] reduce federal revenues by $2.4 trillion over the first ten years and $3.2 trillion over the subsequent decade.

Thus, a big jump in the deficit, since there is no focus by Trump in cutting net Federal government spending (It will go up.).

I understand Hassett plans to attack the
study like a loyal Trump soldier during his Thursday speech

He is going to use as ammo, the notion that tax loopholes will be closed--to prevent the deficit from exploding. He also plans to tell the Laffer Curve joke.

Of course, the D.C. establishment is stepping up now to derail any reduction in loopholes (and good for them, loopholes, as Mises said, allow the economy to breathe) and I suspect McConnell and Ryan, part of the "Big Six" that created the Reform package, have booby-trapped the package anyway.

As for the Laffer Curve joke, I plan to discuss that on this Sunday's edition of Sunday Morning with Robert Wenzel.

The Laffer Curve is a joke and much worse than most understand.

-RW