Comments on: A Lesson on the Laffer Curve for Barack Obama

By: Question of the Week: Quit Dodging the Issue and Tell Us the Revenue-Maximizing Point on the Laffer Curve | International Liberty

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:16:18 +0000

[…] And if you want to learn specifically why Obama’s class-warfare agenda is misguided, here’s my Laffer-Curve-lesson-for-Obama post. […]

By: Obama’s method: Higher Taxes on the Rich Are a Precursor to Higher Taxes on the Rest of Us | The Daily Hatch

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:47:14 +0000

[…] By the way, you can see that Allister makes a reference to tax rates being reduced for top earners. That’s largely because many politicians learned an important lesson about the Laffer Curve. Sometimes, the best way to “soak the rich” is by lowering their tax rates. Unfortunately, President Obama still needs some remedial education on this topic. […]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 315) | The Daily Hatch

Open letter to President Obama (Part 315) | The Daily Hatch — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:13:23 +0000

[...] Last but not least, allow me to call your attention to my effort to give the President a remedial lesson about class warfare and the Laffer Curve. [...]

By: If you want the rich to pay a bigger percentage of the nation’s tax revenues then keep their tax rates low!!! | The Daily Hatch

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:26:40 +0000

[...] I’ve pulled evidence from IRS publications to show that rich people paid a lot more to Uncle Sam after Reagan reduced the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28…. [...]

By: Why Art Laffer’s Unfortunate Endorsement of a State Sales Tax Cartel Is Misguided | lessbull.com

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:27:13 +0000

[...] Art Laffer has a guaranteed spot in the liberty hall of fame because he popularized the common-sense notion that you can’t make any assumptions about tax rates and tax revenue without also figuring out what happens to taxable income. [...]

By: Why Art Laffer’s Unfortunate Endorsement of an State Sales Tax Cartel Is Misguided | lessbull.com

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:08:12 +0000

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 302.3) | The Daily Hatch

Open letter to President Obama (Part 302.3) | The Daily Hatch — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:14:37 +0000

[...] I’ve pulled evidence from IRS publications to show that rich people paid a lot more to Uncle Sam after Reagan reduced the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28…. [...]

By: Why Art Laffer’s Unfortunate Endorsement of an State Sales Tax Cartel Is Misguided | International Liberty

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:23:11 +0000

By: Chuck Norris on class warfare | The Daily Hatch

Chuck Norris on class warfare | The Daily Hatch — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:42:13 +0000

[...] Last but not least, allow me to call your attention to my effort to give the President a remedial lesson about class warfare and the Laffer Curve. [...]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 296) (Laffer curve strikes again!!) | The Daily Hatch

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:36:07 +0000

[...] shared evidence from around the world (England, Italy, the United States, and France) and from various states (Illinois, Oregon, Florida,Maryland, and New York) to [...]

By: The Laffer Curve Bites Ireland in the Butt | lessbull.com

The Laffer Curve Bites Ireland in the Butt | lessbull.com — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:23:55 +0000

[...] My favorite example from that video, needless to say, is what happened during the Reagan years, when the rich paid much more to the IRS after their tax rates were slashed. [...]

By: The Laffer Curve Bites Ireland in the Butt | International Liberty

The Laffer Curve Bites Ireland in the Butt | International Liberty — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:35:37 +0000

[...] My favorite example from that video, needless to say, is what happened during the Reagan years, when the rich paid much more to the IRS after their tax rates were slashed. [...]

By: More Entrepreneurs Say “Au Revoir” to the Administration Fiscale, Escape France’s Confiscatory Tax Regime | International Liberty

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:16:33 +0000

[...] saw in America that rich people paid a lot more to the IRS when Reagan lowered their tax rates in the [...]

By: The Sunday ‘Report;’ 02/24/2013; Part 1 | Justincase505's Blog

The Sunday ‘Report;’ 02/24/2013; Part 1 | Justincase505's Blog — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:24:26 +0000

[...] But it’s not just that the Gipper had good rhetoric. He also did a decent job of restraining spending and he significantly lowered marginal tax rates. [...]

By: The New York Times Calls (again) for Higher Taxes on Middle-Class Americans | International Liberty

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:54:22 +0000

[...] Using IRS tax data, I’ve shown that this is a very inaccurate assumption. And I’ve also used IRS data to show the President that there are big Laffer-Curve effects when you try to rape and pillage high-income Americans. [...]

By: Forget Reagan, Let’s Bring Back Coolidge « International Liberty

Forget Reagan, Let’s Bring Back Coolidge « International Liberty — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:36:55 +0000

[...] But it’s not just that the Gipper had good rhetoric. He also did a decent job of restraining spending and he significantly lowered marginal tax rates. [...]

By: The Laffer Curve KO’s the IRS « International Liberty

The Laffer Curve KO’s the IRS « International Liberty — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:32:48 +0000

[...] Sadly, Barack Obama seems to have a hard time grasping the relationship between tax rates, taxable income, and tax revenue – even though I prepared a simple lesson to help him understand the that there’s not a simplistic linear relationship. [...]

By: Ark Times blogger claims California is better than Texas but facts don’t bear that out (3 great political cartoons) « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:44:29 +0000

[...] if you want to watch the full three-part series, they’re all included in this Laffer Curve lesson that I put together for the President. He seems oblivious to real-world evidence, but others may find the information [...]

By: Spain raises tax rates and revenues fall!!!! « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:59:22 +0000

[...] shared evidence from around the world (England, Italy, the United States, and France) and from various states (Illinois, Oregon, Florida,Maryland, and New York) to [...]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 238) « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:15:14 +0000

[...] my second soundbite, I make a simple point about the Laffer Curve. As we saw in the 1980s, lower tax rates don’t automatically mean lower tax [...]

By: Rather than Helping the Poor, Higher Tax Rates Redistribute Rich People « International Liberty

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:54:56 +0000

[...] Hannan understands that rich people have considerable control over the timing, level, and composition of their income, which is precisely why there are powerful Laffer Curve effects when politicians go after the so-called rich (as I tried to explain in a lesson for President Obama). [...]

By: Penn and Teller Explain Class Warfare « International Liberty

Penn and Teller Explain Class Warfare « International Liberty — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:43:57 +0000

[...] class warfare tax policy, and I’ve explained that higher tax rates on the rich will cause bad Laffer Curve effects because investors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners have considerable ability to change the [...]

By: California’s One-Man Laffer Curve « International Liberty

California’s One-Man Laffer Curve « International Liberty — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:55:23 +0000

By: How the Welfare State Traps the Poor in Dependency, the British Version « International Liberty

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:15:36 +0000

[...] since we know that rich people respond to high tax rates by declaring less income to the government, we shouldn’t be surprised that poor people also [...]

By: Gerard Depardieu Meets John Galt « International Liberty

Gerard Depardieu Meets John Galt « International Liberty — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:19:10 +0000

[...] there’s a lesson there for Obama. But I’ve already tried to educate our taxer-in-chief about these issues, so I doubt this new evidence from France will make any [...]

By: We Need More Growth and Prosperity to Boost Charitable Contributions, not Bribery in the Tax Code « International Liberty

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:29:57 +0000

[...] The class-warfare crowd is opposed to the flat tax for ideological reasons. They want high tax rates and punitive double taxation – even if the government winds up collecting less money. [...]

By: The Secret GOP Budget Plan and other Clever Left-Wing Humor « International Liberty

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:46:54 +0000

[...] This next cartoon also is funny because there’s an element of truth. There’s always a temptation to exaggerate the bad things that supposedly will happen if one’s opponents succeed. Democrats, for instance, look silly for saying the Reagan tax cuts for the “rich” would starve the government of revenue when we now know the rich paid far more when the top tax rate fell from 70 percent to 28 percent. [...]

By: The American Spectator : Thelma and Louise Economics

The American Spectator : Thelma and Louise Economics — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:00:49 +0000

[...] proposal won't generate as much revenue as projected. Surely they are familiar with the evidence from the 1980s, and they must know that upper-income people have considerable control over the timing, level, and [...]

By: Will Obama Learn from England’s Laffer Curve Mistake? « International Liberty

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:23:10 +0000

[...] a similar experiment in the 1980s, except we lowered tax rates instead of raising them. And as you can see in this “lesson” post I wrote for the President, we got the same results as the United Kingdom, except in reverse. More rich people, more taxable [...]

By: A Laffer Curve Warning about the Economy and Tax Revenue for President Obama and other Class Warriors « lessbull.com

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:26:49 +0000

[...] a thoughtful and kind person, I offered some advice last year to Barack Obama. I cited some powerful IRS data from the 1980s to demonstrate that there is not a simplistic linear relationship between tax rates and tax [...]