Morning Edition Debate Commentary Badly Misinforms Listeners

Morning Edition's fact check of comments in the debate badly misled listeners by implying that choosing between reducing deficits between higher taxes and greater growth through tax cuts are alternative paths to deficit reduction that people can choose from like flavors of ice cream at the ice cream store. They are not.

There is no plausible path through which a tax cut will generate enough growth to even pay for itself, much less produce additional revenue. The best analysis of this issue wa...