Comments on: Enterprise zone proposed to spur East Portland development /news/2012/06/14/enterprise-zone-proposed-to-spur-east-portland-development/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:55:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 By: Anonymous /news/2012/06/14/enterprise-zone-proposed-to-spur-east-portland-development/#comment-70160 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:55:32 +0000 /?p=84524#comment-70160 Publius:
Don’t overgeneralize. Lowering taxes on one specific kind of expenditure incents one particular kind of development. It does NOT follow that raising ANY tax reduces development.

Nice try.

]]> By: Publius /news/2012/06/14/enterprise-zone-proposed-to-spur-east-portland-development/#comment-70140 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:10:29 +0000 /?p=84524#comment-70140 So, lowering taxes spurs economic development.

Logic dictates then, that raising taxes inhibits economic development.

Someone should call the White House with this tremendous discovery!!

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