The Laffer Curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between tax rates, tax revenue, and taxable income. It is frequently cited by people who want to explain the common-sense notion that ...

The rate that generates the most tax revenue is never the highest possible rate because people and businesses inevitably ...

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 ...

Last week it emerged that increasing the top rate of income tax in the country to 48p had resulted in lower revenues. It ...

The Scottish government’s decision to raise the top rate of income tax may have backfired, according to analysis by the ...

A couple years ago I was interviewing Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, about economic policies and the 2008 election, and, as he told me repeatedly that lower taxes would yield ...

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I was stunned to learn this morning that leading economists flat-out don’t believe in the Laffer Curve. I mean, economic historian and liberal favorite Bruce Bartlett calls the Laffer Curve “a ...

Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here’s Tuesday’s query: Comment: As one who ...

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 ...