Modi’s Tax Terrorism
With falling direct and indirect tax revenues (sic), the Modi government is desperate to raise more money to spend on their fiscal programs to allegedly bring the economy out of the slump which they think is caused by a fall in aggregate demand . Experts and even BJP MPs like Subramanian Swamy are calling this tax terrorism . I am going to analyze two questions in this article: One, is the economy in slump because of fall in aggregate demand? And two, can this tax terrorism to raise and then spend more money bring the economy out of this slump? Let’s see. In my previous article I have tackled the issue of whether a fall In aggregate demand is responsible for this slump in the economy so I am not going to spend time on that question here. As I have said there, demand is never a problem for any economy. Supply is. And that supply is now chocked by the Modi government via their knucklehead policies like demonetizat...