Only because 3 months of FY 2018 didn't have a tax cut; October 2017 - December 2017.
Well duh, because there hasn't been another tax cut since the one that went into effect on 1/2/18. So what point do you think you're making here?
So to summarize your argument; you argue that revenues increased in the FY following a tax cut
that was only in effect for 75% of that FY. You didn't bother to make note of that simply because if you did, it would mean your insistence, that revenues "sometimes" go up after tax cuts, is
false and predicated on a shameless and sophist attempt to rig data in your pathetic favor. You bristled and whined and screeched that we had to count revenues from the start of the FY (even though you didn't say why we had to do that) and not from the start of the tax cut because...government FY start 10/1. What that has to do with the tax cut that started on 1/1 is something you haven't explained.
You want to count revenues at the start of the FY because that way, you can count the three months without a tax cut in with the 9 months with a tax cut to make it look like revenue grew following the tax cut.
That is the pinnacle of
bad faith.
The start of the FY has no bearing on the effect of tax cuts on revenues. You're trying to frame your argument as if it does, without explaining why or how. You do that because...wait for it...you're a gigantic, lying, sophist piece of shit.
Furthermore, if you're looking at the FY revenue numbers, we see that FY 2018 only saw $13B more in revenues than FY 2017, or 4% growth. Inflation over the same period was 2.4%. So
really the actual revenue growth following 9 months of tax cuts and 3 months without a tax cut was a mere 1.6%. And we can attribute that growth to the three months of revenues for which there was no tax cut.
Funny enough, when we compare Oct-Dec 2017 (769,512) to Oct-Dec 2016 ($740,771 receipts/revenues), we see that those first three months grew federal revenues by $29B, yet revenues grew by only $13B for FY 2018. So what does that mean? It means your shitty tax cut reduced revenues below the previous year's, and that the only reason there was any revenue growth was because of the three months at the start of the FY that didn't have a tax cut.
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