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Tag Archives : Laffer Curve

Sex and the Power of Economics

Sex and the Power of Economics

Posted on February 17, 2012

Even though there is a wealth of evidence for the Laffer Curve, statists and other big-government advocates routinely claim that incentives don’t matter. So I wonder how they’ll react to this new research showing that incentives have an impact on sexual choices. Here are some blurbs from The Economist. …if you are a poor African […]

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The Laffer Curve Works, Even in France

The Laffer Curve Works, Even in France

Posted on January 27, 2012

One year ago, I wrote about how the French government was getting unexpected additional revenues following the implementation of lower tax rates. This is the Laffer Curve in action, and it’s happening again in France, only this time because the government reduced the wealth tax. Here’s part of the story at Tax-news.com. France’s solidarity tax […]

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Illinois Leftist Does a Facepalm, Confirming that Higher Taxes Enable Higher Spending While Trying to Make the Opposite Point

Illinois Leftist Does a Facepalm, Confirming that Higher Taxes Enable Higher Spending While Trying to Make the Opposite Point

Posted on January 21, 2012

Two days ago, I explained that tax increases are bad policy. More specifically, I warned that giving more money to government exacerbates fiscal problems because politicians respond to the expectation of more revenue by spending more than otherwise would be the case. And since they usually over-estimate how much revenue a tax hike will generate, […]

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Illinois Downgrade Provides More Evidence that Higher Taxes Make Fiscal Problems Worse, not Better

Illinois Downgrade Provides More Evidence that Higher Taxes Make Fiscal Problems Worse, not Better

Posted on January 20, 2012

I don’t blame the Democrats for wanting to seduce Republicans into a tax-increase trap. Indeed, I completely understand why some Democrats said their top political goal was getting the GOP to surrender the no-tax-hike position. I’m mystified, though, why some Republicans are willing to walk into such a trap. If you were playing chess against […]

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Debunking the “Conservative” Argument for a Wealth Tax

Debunking the “Conservative” Argument for a Wealth Tax

Posted on January 16, 2012

Last year, I debunked the silly claim that Obama is a conservative. I almost didn’t write that post. Some things, after all, presumably don’t require a response. Would I waste my time, for instance, responding to someone who claimed that Milton Friedman was a communist? But sometimes it’s necessary to counter absurd arguments, precisely so […]

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Will the Last Job Creator to Leave California Please Turn Off the Lights?

Will the Last Job Creator to Leave California Please Turn Off the Lights?

Posted on December 27, 2011

I’ve written before about whether California is the Greece of America, in part because of crazy policies such as overpaid bureaucrats and expensive forms of political correctness, And we all know that California has one of the nation’s greediest governments, imposing confiscatory tax rates on a shrinking pool of productive citizens. So it is hardly […]

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Alan Blinder’s Accidental Case for the Flat Tax

Alan Blinder’s Accidental Case for the Flat Tax

Posted on November 14, 2011

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

A Lesson on the Laffer Curve for Barack Obama

Posted on November 6, 2011

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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The Laffer Curve Wins Again: Snooki 1 – IRS 0

The Laffer Curve Wins Again: Snooki 1 – IRS 0

Posted on October 14, 2011

The Laffer Curve is the simple notion that higher tax rates don’t necessarily generate as much loot as politicians expect because taxpayers have less incentive to earn and/or report income. And it works in both directions. Lower tax rates don’t lose as much revenue as politicians fear because better tax policy leads to more taxable […]

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One Simple Reason (and Two Easy Steps) to Show Why Obama’s Soak-the-Rich Tax Hikes Won’t Work

One Simple Reason (and Two Easy Steps) to Show Why Obama’s Soak-the-Rich Tax Hikes Won’t Work

Posted on September 20, 2011

It’s hard to keep track of all the tax hikes that President Obama is proposing, but it’s very simple to recognize his main target – the evil, nasty, awful people known as the rich. Or, as Obama identifies them, the “millionaires and billionaires” who happen to have yearly incomes of more than $200,000. Whether the […]

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