Many early proponents argued that the size of the economic growth would be significant enough that the increased government revenue from a faster-growing economy would be sufficient to compensate completely for the short-term costs of a tax cut and that tax cuts could in fact cause overall revenue to increase.
许多供给面学派的早期支持者认为，经济增长的幅度将会足够显著，以至于从一个高速增长的经济中得来的政府收入增加，足以完全补偿减税的短期成本，而且减税事实上有可能使总收入增加。