Look, Bart, if you want to say it's the "Laffer Curve" that tells you having cliff-edges in the tax system is absurd and perverse, be my guest. I can't stop you doing that, and tb… (View Post)

Conceptually there kind of must be, yes. But with so many complexities and moving parts (eg there are umpteen different taxes) you're never really in "curve" territory at all. But desp… (View Post)

That's not our boy Laffer though. It's about the tax take and the conceit is you can use the Curve to pitch tax at an 'optimum' rate to maximise the take. I've looked at it a… (View Post)

I agree. I enjoyed the header and found myself nodding along with much of it. But I do have a quibble, a serious one that unless it's resolved undermines the whole piece for me. It's this: … (View Post)

Good points. The Dems are struggling structurally and it will take something special for them to win big at the midterms. But the way I see it the 'something special' is forming before our … (View Post)