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

President Trump is set to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer, known as the “father of supply-side economics.” (Reed Saxon/AP) Analysis by Elizabeth Popp Berman ...

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 ...

Last December marked the 40 th anniversary of the Laffer curve—sort of. Sometime around the week of Dec. 2, 1974, at the Two Continents restaurant at the Hotel Washington, there on Pennsylvania Avenue ...

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 ...

This is why, for instance, the rich paid much more to the IRS after Reagan lower the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent. So why am I giving a refresher course on the Rahn Curve and Laffer ...

This year, President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Art Laffer, a former economic adviser to Ronald Reagan, for what is widely known as the Laffer curve. The Laffer curve posits ...

We're just at the 40th anniversary of the first drawing of what became known as the Laffer Curve. Which seems like a reasonable enough time to sort through the misunderstandings, even misinformation, ...

Last year, famed Republican economist Art Laffer co-authored a hagiographic tribute to President Trump and his agenda. Trump habitually bestows his most slavish supporters with pardons or — in the ...

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 ...

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect. The arithmetic effect is simply that if tax rates ...