Economists are saying that Trump's tax cuts won't pay for themselves

Thomson Reuters At a conference of policymakers and financial industry executives last month, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the nascent Trump tax plan, which consists mostly of individual and corporate tax cuts, "will pay for itself with growth." Economists surveyed by the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business say otherwise. The survey, published last week, reported that 35 of the 37 economists who responded said they disagreed or strongly disagreed with the idea that th...