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The Congressional Budget Office’s Semi-Decent Dynamic Scoring of Obamacare Repeal
Repeal of Obamacare will reduce the burden of spending and the burden of taxation.
read more...Why “Dynamic Scoring” Is Far More Accurate Than “Static Scoring”
New research shows why the fight for dynamic scoring is so important.
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The Left’s Position on the Laffer Curve and Dynamic Scoring: Being Exactly Wrong Is Better than Being Inexactly Right
A scorer admits the ideological, rather than scientific, reasoning used by CBO and JCT.
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Prosperity Update December 30, 2014
A large free market coalition calls for injecting reality into the CBO and JCT scoring, another blow to Keynesianism, and the enduring lessons of Milton Friedman.
read more...Debunking the Debunking of Dynamic Scoring and the Laffer Curve
Matthew Yglesias mostly attacks strawmen in his attempting debunking of dynamic scoring.
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Proper Staffing and Reform of JCT and CBO Is an IQ Test for the Republican Party
CBO and JCT wield tremendous power. They are also dependable allies of the left.
read more...Progress on the Laffer Curve*
The title of this piece has an asterisk because, unfortunately, we’re not talking about progress on the Laffer Curve in the United States. Even Keynes himself accepted this. Like many other economists throughout the ages, he understood and agreed with the principles that underpinned what eventually came to be known as the Laffer curve: that […]
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Another Victory for Good Fiscal Policy
Our lords and masters in Washington have taken a small step in the direction of recognizing the Laffer Curve. Here are some details from a Politico report. Here’s one Republican victory that went virtually unnoticed in the slew of budget votes last week: The Senate told the Congressional Budget Office it should give more credit […]
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Alan Blinder’s Accidental Case for the Flat Tax
Alan Blinder has a distinguished resume. He’s a professor at Princeton and he served as Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve. So I was interested to see he authored an attack on the flat tax – and I was happy after I read his column. Why? Well, because his arguments are rather weak. So anemic […]
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A Lesson on the Laffer Curve for Barack Obama
One of my frustrating missions in life is to educate policy makers on the Laffer Curve. This means teaching folks on the left that tax policy affects incentives to earn and report taxable income. As such, I try to explain, this means it is wrong to assume a simplistic linear relationship between tax rates and […]
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