# Taxes That Don't Benefit You Directly Can Still Benefit You Indirectly

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 15, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taxes-that-dont-benefit-you-directly-can-still-benefit-you-indirectly/132391 "2002-10-15T20:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![flex727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flex727](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flex727)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taxes-that-dont-benefit-you-directly-can-still-benefit-you-indirectly/132391/81 "2002-11-03T14:25:27Z")

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> \*Originally posted by jshore \*  
> \*\*Just to expand on my reference to Krugman, here is Krugman’s summary of your expanding pie argument as I see it:
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> For Krugman’s analysis of this (which is too involved to do justice with sound bites from the article), see the article itself: [http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/magazine/20INEQUALITY.html?pagewanted=7&ei=1&en=18449504d20bd065&ex=1036345863](http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/magazine/20INEQUALITY.html?pagewanted=7&ei=1&en=18449504d20bd065&ex=1036345863)  
> [I linked you into the middle of the discussion, but you can go back and forward from there.] \*\*

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

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