On the death of legendary public servant George P. Shultz several days ago, the New Republic ran an extraordinary piece of historical reflection, Bruce Bartlett’s “George Shul...
Professor Saez, the Svengali of raising tax rates on the rich, argues that a tax rate of 73% on the top 1% of income earners raises the most revenues. Somehow, he must have ov...
When the recent public health crisis took shape in early March, one of the intriguing events that was postponed until the fall was a debate between Arthur Laffer and Emmanuel ...
These series of charts offers a snapshot of West Virginia’s economic climate and how the state compares with other U.S. states. The charts were included in Dr. Laffer’s remark...
For many countries around the world, the challenge of administering effective tobacco taxation has been to ensure the optimal level and structure of taxation that achieves the...
Supply-side economics emphasizes economic growth achieved by tax and fiscal policy that creates incentives to produce goods and services by lowering marginal tax rates to increase the after-tax rate of return.
Arthur B. Laffer’s economic acumen and influence in triggering a world-wide tax-cutting movement in the 1980s have earned him the distinction in many publications at “The Father of Supply-Side Economics.”