What Liberals And Conservatives Both Get Wrong About Taxes Summary

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The EconGuy Video entitled What liberals and Conservatives Both Get Wrong about Taxes was particularly interesting to me. As a person who rejects the two party/ideology system, I felt a slight sense of vindication in hearing that both were wrong. It was nice to here him explain why both conservatives and liberals were wrong. The Conservative position being that taxes hurt the economy in that the taxes collected from the individual is money that cannot be spent. This is wrong, as EconGuy explains, because it assumes that the money simply disappears, but in reality, the money is spread around, among other things, to pay the salaries of government workers who can therefore put the money back into the economy. The Liberal position, that government