It would be a fiscal stimulus only if taxpayers had previously expected that Congress and the administration would allow the tax rates to rise – an unlikely prospect, given the highly adverse effects that doing so would have had on the currently weak economy.
Sería un estímulo fiscal sólo si los contribuyentes hubieran esperado antes que el Congreso y el Gobierno permitirían un aumento de los tipos impositivos, cosa improbable, en vista de los efectos profundamente adversos que habría tenido en la actualmente débil economía.