Tax cuts: that should have been the plan from the beginning. Economics 101:
"Now they tell us. A new NBER paper from Harvard’s Alberto F. Alesina and Silvia Ardagna (”Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending”) makes the case for tax cuts over spending as stimulus:
As we well know a very large portion of the current astronomical 12 percent of GDP deficit is the result of bailout of various types of the financial sector. … But part of the deficit is the result of the stimulus package that was passed to lift the economy out of the recession. About two third of this fiscal package is constituted by increases in spending, including public investment, transfers and government consumption. According to our results fiscal stimuli based upon tax cut are much more likely to be growth enhancing than those on the spending side. In this respect the US stimulus plan seems too much based upon spending."
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