9 days ago by Andrew

Earlier this week Mehdi Hasan wrote a Guardian column entitled 'Why are deficit-cutters so afraid to talk about tax?' - a well-argued piece that said taxation should form a bigger part of deficit reduction than it presently does relative to the massive cuts. It also quoted US judge Wendell Holmes "I ...

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15 days ago by Daniel J. Mitchell

One year ago, I wrote about how the French government was getting unexpected additional revenues [1] following the implementation of lower tax rates. This is the Laffer Curve [2] in action, and it's happening again in France, only this time because the government reduced the wealth tax. Here's part ...

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30 days ago by RobotPirateNinja

Extended Interviews – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The link goes to the second part of the interview. It includes the part ( a couple minutes into part 2) where Jim DeMint makes the easily disproved claim that the Bush tax cuts increased revenue. Steward points out “that’s not true”…and then con ...

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39 days ago by kosinfo24

Τον Οκτώβριο του 2008 ο Γ. Αλογοσκούφης παρουσίασε ένα προσχέδιο για τον προϋπολογισμό όπου, το δημοσιονομικό έλλειμμα θα διαμορφωνόταν στο 1,8% του ΑΕΠ και ο ρυθμός ανάπτυξης στο 3,4%. Στον προϋπολογισμό ενσωματώνονται και νέα φορολογικά μέτρα ύψους τουλάχιστον 7,4 δισεκατομμυρίων Ευρώ,... όπου μετ ...

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40 days ago by Steve Denning

[1]Roger Martin is the Dean of the Rotman School of Fixing the Game [2], explains why the private sector’s 35-year addiction to “maximizing shareholder value” has been disastrous for shareholders, for employees, the personal lives of executives, for the economy and for society at large. It also show ...

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40 days ago by Tim Worstall

Robert Solow was once asked (by a very famous mathematician whose name I have forgotten) whether there was anything in the social sciences that was not obvious or trivial. The answer was not a snappy comeback but when Solow wrote it up later he said, yes, Ricardo on trade. And no, I won't bother to ...

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42 days ago by liberal57

TweetLogos57: A Caring CommunityDecember 31, 2011 Supply Side Economics, The Bush Tax Cuts& John Boehner Completely Discredited The Bush Tax Cuts and Supply Side Economicsby Now Should Be Completely Discreditedas Economic Evidence, History Show Logos57: A Caring Community, edited version published D ...

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44 days ago by T. CHRISTOPHER

Ronald Reagan economist and father of The Laugher Curve Art Laffer has decided to endorse Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and will officially endorse the GOP hopeful Thursday in Iowa. The supply-side guru had previously supported Herman Cain and his 9-9-9 plan; so the Gingrich camp is no d ...

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45 days ago by Dave Serchuk

Economist Arthur Laffer has had a long, distinguished career. Unfortunately one of the things that has distinguished it is that he has often been extremely wrong. That’s why, in a new feature for this blog, I have Revoked Art Laffer’s Pundit License. ™ This means that everyone who reads this blog wi ...

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46 days ago by Daniel J. Mitchell

By Daniel J. Mitchell 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 confiscato ...

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