[Calvin Locke]

And careful with the napkin reference. Reaganomics, which helped bring us out of the Carter era, was inspired by a bell-curve that Art Laffer drew on a restaurant napkin.

My beef with the Laffer Curve is that it only demonstrates the optimal tax rate, revenue-wise, not that the gub'mint actually needs to extract that amount to function...

It should go without saying Dems are more interested in power than optimizing revenue, hence the emphasis on higher, but much less efficient, not too mention counter-productive and punitive tax rates.

[Wings-n-Wind]

It should go without saying Dems are more interested in power than optimizing revenue,

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THI-I-I-S-S-S-s-s-s....
....was precisely my point in my little impromptu blurb.

Thanks for your analysis.