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...90?? Drop in average price per gal. by December...
...averaged $2.73 per gal. in mid- October, speeding by 5 m.p.h. can cost as much as 62¢ per gal., say the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy (DOE). Gunning the engine and jamming on the brakes can lower gas mileage 5% to 33%, or as much as 90?...
...from the hilltop home, this lingering band nibbled on cheese cubes and sipped red wine as they admired the building's imposing white columns and soaring rotunda. These lingerers were more than tourists, more than guests. They were Jefferson's family. Many breathed a sigh of relief that the 90??F midday heat was giving way to such a perfect spring evening...
...government budget of 100, no debt and an annual deficit of zero. Call interest rates 4%. And say that in year one we get a 10%, across-the-board tax cut. Let's assume further that there is a starve-the-beast effect of 90%. This means that 90?? of any dollar in tax cuts is covered by spending cuts that emerge spontaneously from the national subconscious. Assume finally that all the other things that affect government revenue and spending don't exist. What happens...
...idea that a tax cut will immediately return 90?? on the dollar is wildly optimistic. Starve the beast, as a philosophy, has nothing to say about what exactly gets cut from the government budget. And there is an implication that this cutting happens painlessly, like the supply-siders' free lunch. But it does not happen painlessly or without a fight. At a somewhat more realistic STB rate of 50¢ worth of budget cuts for every tax-cut dollar, the deficit climbs from 0 to 11 (equivalent to $220 billion). Spending drops to 97 around year eight but is back...