Sentences with phrase «laffer argued»
Laffer argued several times that what's really needed is total tax reform — taxing all income including unrealized capital gains at one flat rate instead of an ad hoc approach targeting certain sectors of the population.
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Hassett has also gone a step further and, with his AEI colleague Alex Brill, argued that cutting the corporate income tax could raise economic growth enough to actually increase revenue: a Laffer effect.
A New York Times op - ed written by Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, and Stephen Moore argued that since tax reform is hard, Republicans should stop worrying about how to pay - for tax reform and just pass a giant business tax cut.
It's been discredited no matter how much Laffer twists his argument (see: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/01/the-new-laffer.html) Even if you argue it's still a misrepresentation of the Laffer Curve to automatically equate it with the New Right, Laffer himself can reasonably take some of the credit for that, having been closely aligned with the discredited economics of both the Nixon and Reagan adminstrations (see: http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/11/supply-side-economic-tax-rich) But the point is this: if Cameron decides to implement tax cuts on the basis of the Laffer Curve — in the belief that this will top up the government coffers - we're in trouble.
Arthur Laffer (prominent economic adviser to President Reagan): In a New Hampshire Public Radio interview (10/19/11), and in «Economist Arthur Laffer proposes taxing pollution instead of income» (Vanderbilt Univ., 2/20/12), Laffer recommended a carbon tax with revenue used to cut income taxes, a swap that he argued would create jobs, improve economic output and reduce pollution.