When it comes to taxes, many people feel the government can never collect enough. But how can governments determine the “ideal” tax rate? Enter the Laffer curve—a theory that suggests there is an ...

Stephen Moore, who formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, is a distinguished visiting fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation. He ...

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 ...

Last December marked the 40 th anniversary of the Laffer curve—sort of. Sometime around the week of Dec. 2, 1974, at the Two Continents restaurant at the Hotel Washington, there on Pennsylvania Avenue ...

We're just at the 40th anniversary of the first drawing of what became known as the Laffer Curve. Which seems like a reasonable enough time to sort through the misunderstandings, even misinformation, ...

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LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - An irony about the ludicrously steep import tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on China last month is that they made no sense as taxes - at least if you believe one ...

The Laffer Curve is a method for illustrating the relationship between tax rates, taxable income, and tax revenue. But it’s important to realize that there are actually lots of varieties. The… Read ...

We hope economist Arthur Laffer uses a fancy napkin today when enjoying his 75th birthday cake. The reference is to maybe the most famous napkin in American history. Dining with officials of President ...

What is the Laffer curve? If you read last week’s column, it’s an unjustifiable justification of supply-side economics. If you’re an economist, it’s nothing more than a graph imagining a hypothetical ...