Pro-Growth Tax Cuts Always Create Jobs: MSNBC’s The Ed Show Misrepresents Heritage Position

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Congress has an important decision to make before the end of the year: Extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts or allow them to expire and significantly raise taxes. There is never a good time to raise taxes because higher taxes always come with a steep cost: slower economic growth, fewer jobs and lower wages.  To raise taxes now while the unemployment rate lingers at 10 percent is simply reckless and irresponsible.

Some like Ed Schultz of MSNBC’s the Ed Show claim that keeping the tax cuts in place won’t help the economy and create jobs. This is a fact he tried to make when I was on his show last week. (more…)