“A sharp decline in income — especially among the wealthiest Americans, who pay the highest tax rates — also played a role, according to the report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Household income fell 12 percent on average from 2007 to 2009, with income among the top 1 percent of earners decreasing by more than a third. (Washington Post)
Fine. Now what about spending?
FEE Timely Classic
“What Spending and Deficits Do” by Henry Hazlitt