Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari expressed his doubts on the long term effect of Trump’s USD 1.5T package of corporate and individual tax cuts. In an event at African Development Center of Minnesota, he said “we know if you cut taxes on the margin that should boost economic growth in the short term.” However, “the question is when that short term is over, does it actually lead to longer-term, higher sustained economic growth? That’s unclear right now.”
He also points to the information he got from businesses. Kashkari said while business leaders “are more optimistic than I had expected,” they are also saying that lower tax rates have not led them to make new investments, at least not yet. He added “I am asking businesses ‘are you actually investing more?’ And so far the answer that I’ve heard is ‘we’re waiting to see.'”
