USD: When will it stop... falling?

[Final-Fan]

klydwntelos said:
@Final-Fan "The primary result of tax cuts is decreased tax revenue. This is a tautology, but it seems to be one that you do not grasp. "

I'm not quite sure you meant this phrasing, but either way it is not a tautology. Higher taxes does not in any way guarantee higher tax revenue. For example, consider the case where the government charges 100% tax. Then pretty much everyone will work on the black market or not at all, and the government will collect 0 revenue. Clearly at some point higher taxes will actually decrease tax revenue. This is the idea between the Laffer curve.

As an American, I don't see why everyone is convinced that the a weak dollar or trade deficit is too bad. A weak dollar could make it easier for multinational companies to pay US game designers. A trade deficit could be the result of buying a lot of Nintendo games. Sounds good to me.

Merriam-Webster sez: tautology: needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word; a statement that is true by virtue of its logical form alone. 

A "tax cut" occurs when a government "cuts" taxes, that is, "reduces in amount" (M-W again) the "taxes" ("a sum levied on members of an organization (e.g. the government) to defray expenses") that it takes in (i.e. "tax revenue").

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my keyboard?

(And frankly, the 100% tax rate example is an insult to the intelligence of the reader and does not bode well for your own.  Reductio ad absurdum is often absurdum all by itself.  And besides, a 0% tax rate also takes in 0 revenue by definition, whereas a 100% tax rate only takes in 0 revenue eventually, and if your argument is correct.)