Discover how the Laffer Curve illustrates the impact of tax rates on government revenue and fuels political debate.

When it comes to taxes, many people feel the government can never collect enough. But how can governments determine the “ideal” tax rate? Enter the Laffer curve—a theory that suggests there is an ...

What is the Laffer curve? If you read last week’s column, it’s an unjustifiable justification of supply-side economics. If you’re an economist, it’s nothing more than a graph imagining a hypothetical ...

The story goes that back in 1974, economist Art Laffer was having a drink in a DC bar when he took out a pen and sketched his famous curve, demonstrating that raising tax rates could lead to lower ...

So what do we think of the Laffer Curve, given that President Trump will be giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer. Well, certainly it isn’t economic phlogiston. It’s a ...

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 ...

The Laffer Curve—the conceptual device illustrating how high marginal tax rates reduced revenue and economic growth—helped revolutionize tax policy around the world thirty five years ago. Every ...

The Laffer Curve is a method for illustrating the relationship between tax rates, taxable income, and tax revenue. But it’s important to realize that there are actually lots of varieties. The… Read ...