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No, it is not obviously untrue. A budget deficit is the difference between income (receipts) and expenditures. You can widen the deficit by reducing income or increasing expenditures or any combination thereof. You can lower deficits by doing the opposite.
Deficit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Your statement that cutting taxes does not increase the deficit is arguable; it is very, very far from axiomatic, which you imply. While its ok to hold the position that reducing taxes does not affect the deficit, you have to recognize that it is only a position. Given, that the statement is contrary to logic (reducing taxes acts first to reduce receipts and therefore widen the deficit) the burden of proof is on you to support that statement.
What is insincere and ignorant is thinking you can just make such a broad statement, pound your chest and think you have the truth. You are trumpeting a belief system that is in the minority and frankly illogical, its really up to you to support your claim. Good luck, however, as there is very little to no evidence supporting this assertion.
Please honor the intelligence of other people on this forum and step up your game with intelligent comments and evidence supporting your statements. You can help yourself here by presenting the work of an established economist. If you can not do this then stick to posting things you know something about.
I don't know if we have the wiggle room to cut taxes right now. We may be at the other end of the Laffer Curve.
What might be a big help is if the Feds stopped suing people like Boeing for Creating Jobs or shutting down Gibson Guitars for creating jobs or running oil rigs out of the Gulf on a whim or similar anti business moves.