Saved Not Spent

Economics
Financial Markets
Politics
Author

Stephen Kirchner

Published

February 27, 2008

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner launches a robust defence of the government’s tax cuts:

“To the extent that there is a stimulatory impact … it is actually far less than some people have been presenting.”…

“Everybody … assumes that every last dollar that every citizen gets in a tax cut will be spent and not saved - that’s a false assumption,” Mr Tanner said.

I make many of the same arguments here.