Reader MJ argues that the Laffer Curve remains important because even if we're not actually maximizing tax revenue, it offers an insight into the economic cost of taxation: "I also take it to mean ...

The Laffer Curve is the most famous, non-empirical economic concept of the last fifty years. The idea, famously sketched by then USC-economics professor Arthur Laffer, was that there was some ...

At a legendary 1974 Washington dinner, economist Arthur Laffer supposedly sketched his famous curve on a napkin, demonstrating how excessive taxation could reduce government revenue. Now researchers ...

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Former Secretary of State George Shultz died over the weekend at age 100. He received many accolades for being one of the last sane Republicans. Shultz was from the Eisenhower era of Republican ...

The godfather of supply-side economics and inventor of the "Laffer Curve" is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP. The economist Arthur Laffer appeared early Monday on ...

An interesting little set of numbers here. Numbers that show us that the estate tax, or if you prefer the death tax, is already too high. We would in fact gain more revenue if we simply abolished it ...

Last year, famed Republican economist Art Laffer co-authored a hagiographic tribute to President Trump and his agenda. Trump habitually bestows his most slavish supporters with pardons or — in the ...

So what do we think of the Laffer Curve, given that President Trump will be giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer. Well, certainly it isn’t economic phlogiston. It’s a ...

Conservatives are very fond of the Laffer Curve, which says that sometimes, lowering taxes can raise revenue. Liberals love to make fun of it by pointing out that all the Republican claims that this ...

There's nothing particularly complicated about the Laffer Curve. In fact, it's so easy to grasp, the man who came up with it in the 1970s, economist Arthur Laffer, first sketched it out on a cocktail ...