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

Liberals don't like the Laffer Curve. If you have any doubts, Google "‘Laffer Curve' +discredited" and peruse the 13,400 hits you get. Well, if Liberals hate the Laffer Curve (and they do), they are ...

The Laffer Curve is an economic tax theory, that—legend says—was written up on a napkin at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. What does the Laffer Curve actually say and why is it the darling of tax ...

Stephen Moore, who formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, is a distinguished visiting fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation. He ...

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 ...

One of my frustrating missions in life is to educate policy makers on the Laffer Curve. This means teaching folks on the left that tax policy affects incentives to earn and report taxable income. As ...

A couple years ago I was interviewing Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, about economic policies and the 2008 election, and, as he told me repeatedly that lower taxes would yield ...

I enjoyed the article about stand-up comedian and economist Yoram Bauman, a truly funny comedian (“An Economist Stands Up for a Less Dismal Science,” The Chronicle, January 3). However, I was ...

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 ...

Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here’s Tuesday’s query: Comment: As one who ...