[Video] Feit en fictie over overheidsschulden en begrotingstekorten

Veronique de Rugy legt uit.

De Franse econome heeft een vast item op Bloomberg TV waar ze feit en fictie van elkaar onderscheidt.

Deze keer: drie mythes én de juiste feiten over overheidsschulden en begrotingstekorten:

 

Myth 1: Debt and deficits are a disease that can only be cured by raising taxes.

Fact 1: Debt and deficits are only a symptom. The disease is overspending. And tax increases are no cure. Besides, even if we could balance the budget by raising taxes it wouldn’t stay balanced so long as programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid remain unreformed.

Myth 2: There is no relationship between high interest rates and deficits. And even if there was, interest rates remain at all-time lows.

Fact 2: That may have been true once, but the data now shows that investors anticipate an increase in both interest rates and deficits.

 

Myth 3: Debt and deficits may be a problem, but we don’t have to fix it now.

Fact 3: Debt and deficits are having an immediate negative impact on the economy.