David Cay Johnston: More Corporate Tax Breaks Will Not Stimulate the Economy - Getting the economy back on its feet, giving taxpayers a break, saving your retirement fund and your kids college tuition? Done. And it wont cost you a penny. David Cay Johnston outlines his own fiscal therapy to end the economic crisis. David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. He has the cover story in the latest issue of Mother Jones magazine, titled Fiscal Therapy His most recent book is titled Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill). He is a former reporter at the New York Times. The notion that everything is solved by a tax cut, of course there are sensible tax policies you can have. But there are public needs we have in this society that cannot be accomplished by a tax cut. No tax cut builds a road. No tax cut puts a cop on the street. No tax cut educates a child in the way that it ought to be done. So this—only tax cuts, at a time when I think we have a deficiency in some areas that are important for the quality of our life, is a big disagreement. The Bush tax cuts, all of them were financed with borrowed money. And where did we end up at the end of the Bush administration? If you add up all of the bailouts that the Bush administration did in the fall, the investments, the spending and the guarantees, its over $8 trillion. How much money is that? It is more than all of the income taxes paid ...
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