by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve
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...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 27, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Laffer Curve, Taxation
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...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Laffer Curve, States, Taxation
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....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
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...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
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...
