Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States, coauthored by Arthur B. Laffer, Brian Domitrovic and Jeanne Sinquefield, will be released Sep. 27, 2022. Taxes Have Consequences is the definitive history of the income taxand its effecton the economy. The top rate of...
This paper takes a modestly deeper dive into the threat of, and prospects for, inflation. It also lays out the current circumstances of the labor market provided by the monthly jobs report. Link to study: A Deeper Dive ...
“Superman, Wyatt Earp, and Dorothy: The Story of Kansas" is Arthur Laffer’s assessment of the Kansas economy during and the governorship of Sam Brownback. “The Economic Burden of Tax Code Complexity” is a 2010 study by Arthur Laffer, Wayne Winegarten, and businessman John Childs about the...
This comprehensive study on Kentucky’s economic history and prosperity agenda examines state revenue, pensions, tax structure, and political corruption. While Kentucky’s economic performance has historically ranked poorly, Dr. Laffer offers remedies for a path forward. Link to study: The Commonwealth of Kentucky - An Economic History and...
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 remarks to the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Meeting on September 2, 2015. Link to study: West...
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 public health and public finance goals of governments. As I pointed out in my book, Handbook of Tobacco Taxation:...
President Obama’s FY 2016 budget plan includes a proposal to deny the standard business cost deduction to U.S.-based, foreign-owned companies for reinsurance premiums they pay to foreign reinsurance affiliates. That same proposal is carried over, though never enacted, from President Obama’s budgets for several recent...
Jimmy Pethokoukis, a columnist and blogger at the American Enterprise Institute, recently appeared on my friend Bill Bennett’s radio show. Based on his comments on Bill’s show, Jimmy wrote an article entitled “The right needs to get real on Reaganomics,” claiming that the Reagan tax...
