[lbo-talk] American Prospect Online - Dwight Macdonald

[Jim Devine]

On 4/18/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Worse, they encourage loopy ideas like his assassination was the
> result of his alleged plan to withdraw from Vietnam. Noam Chomsky has
> shot that one to hell, but people believe it anyway. Kennedy was a
> dedicated cold warrior - and, if you listen to Larry Kudlow, the
> first supply sider.

at the time, people on the left scoffed at the Kennedy/Johnson tax
cuts for being so regressive. This jibes with the notion that JFK was
a supply-sider, as does the fact that corporate tax cuts aimed at
stimulating fixed investment are in a no-man's land claimed by both
Keynesians and supply-siders.

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Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles