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And, in case you're interested, after last year's election — in which American voters made it clear that they want to preserve the social safety net while raising taxes on the rich — the famous fomenters of fiscal fear have moved to the right, calling for even less revenue and even more spending cuts.
Spreading fiscal fear, ideology parades as principle.
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Joe also argues that high income inequality depresses tax receipts, fueling fiscal fears.
Whatever the reason, it's very disappointing to see economists feeding fiscal fears with work that is so obviously flawed.
But there's something about fiscal scare stories that makes economists who have done good work elsewhere careless, all too ready to jump on results that seem to reinforce fiscal fears without engaging in self-reflection and self-criticism.
As the discussions proceeded, the chairman had an even bigger idea, thinking of a way to put together a bill that would be almost impossible to defeat and which would satisfy some of his fiscal fears.
The Fiscal Cliff: Fears Grow Fears begin to build about the looming cliff, and some people are concerned it may impede job growth.
But if he had, I would have asked "1937??" Even center-right economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhardt, both fiscal conservatives, fear that the US should not cut back spending too much at the moment.
Germany, which prizes fiscal rigor, fears it will have fewer allies in the euro zone, where southern European nations are predominant.
We've already seen this happen with fiscal policy: fearing opposition in Congress, the Obama administration offered an inadequate plan, only to see the plan weakened further in the Senate.
Both Mr. Anderson and Mr. Pattison cautioned that some of the better-than-expected tax collections that many states experienced this year could be a one-time fluke: a higher-than-usual number of taxpayers apparently sold investments at the end of 2012 as Congress debated what to do about the so-called fiscal cliff, fearing the prospect of higher tax rates.
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