New research shows the current top federal income tax rate is close to revenue-maximizing. Politicians who want to raise ...
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About 50 years ago, Art Laffer drew a convex curve on a napkin to illustrate the power of tax cuts to two senior officials from the Ford administration named Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
I never thought I’d say this but I miss voodoo economics. It was shocking at the time when a crank economic doctrine — the claim that tax cuts pay for themselves — became the official Republican Party ...
The Laffer Curve continues to shed light on how to manage tax policy more effectively. Unfortunately, too few recognize the pragmatech theory that posits a too high tax burden will alter individual ...
Economist Arthur Laffer, patron saint of tax cuts, is back, with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that he hopes will put the kibosh on future plans for government stimulus. Laffer, who had his ...
The U.S. is about to have the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world because our competitors have noticed that revenue goes up as rates go down. Multinational corporations today nimbly move ...
I participated in perhaps a bit of radio history last week when Steve Forbes and Art Laffer joined me on my syndicated radio show. It may have been the first time these supply-side economics giants ...
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Rachel Reeves is rediscovering the Laffer curve

If you keep raising taxes, at some point, you start to bring in less revenue. Rachel Reeves has shown the way, says Matthew Lynn ...
The Laffer Curve states that the higher you set tax rates, the more you will receive in tax revenues until you hit a certain point. Thereafter, tax revenues will dwindle as tax payers lose the will to ...
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell and Kim Strassel. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/Khalil Hamra/Associated Press What does it take to persuade a ...