Dr. Laffer or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Laffer Curve

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Sunday August 01, 2010 · 3:13 PM PDT

2010/08/01 · 15:13

This has got to stop. Unpublished scribbling on a cocktail napkin 35 years ago has set our tax policy on the road to serfdom. As a person who has taught economics, the reason to me is obvious: Economic graphs are intellectual tasers, stunning the general public into submission without a fight. People don't want to engage because surrender is easier and safer. Liberals and progressives, being readers, don't want appear wrong.

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