"The Laffer curve has done immense damage to the US economy in the 40 years since its inception. It also ignores a fundamental reality: tax cuts for the rich don't work.
"Each and every time state or federal governments have tested Laffer's trickle-down theory, deficits balloon, rich folks hoard their wealth at the top, and average Americans suffer."
Morris Pearl at The Guardian criticizes Donald Trump's feting of Arthur Laffer.
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Faith-Based Economics
Labels:
1970s,
class,
economic history,
economics,
political history,
Reagan,
twentieth century
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