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Laffer’s new book: Good, but a study in the obvious.
Orange Punch, The Orange County Register political commentary blog ^ | 3-28-2012 | Mark Landsbaum

Posted on 03/28/2012 5:15:13 PM PDT by landsbaum

We’ve finished economist Arthur Laffer’s new book, Eureka! How to Fix California, which he delivered to the Register this morning in person while visiting with our Editorial Board. It’s a good. But in a sense it’s a wonder why people have to devote countless hours of research to study such stuff, when the conclusions are so intuitively obvious. In short . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at orangepunch.ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: arthurlaffer; laffercurve; taxes; taxreduction

1 posted on 03/28/2012 5:15:30 PM PDT by landsbaum
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To: landsbaum
(Excerpt) Read more at orangepunch.ocregister.com ...

In short.. what?

Perhaps you could summarize. I'm not clicking your blog.

2 posted on 03/28/2012 5:20:56 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Dammit! Agaaaaain! He lists his email, maybe he needs some.


3 posted on 03/28/2012 5:41:24 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (The only flaw is that America doesn't recognize Cyber's omniscience. -- sergeantdave)
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I'm not clicking your blog.

Why not? You'd click to read the article at a newspaper or magazine web site.

4 posted on 03/28/2012 6:44:14 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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You'd click to read the article at a newspaper or magazine web site.

The "author" of the newspaper or magazine web site is not pimping material here in order to get hits, are they?

5 posted on 03/28/2012 6:53:38 PM PDT by humblegunner
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“Good, but a study in the obvious.”

IIRC, that’s what you said about the Unibomber’s Manifesto!


6 posted on 03/28/2012 7:03:58 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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Obvious, as in -- Lower taxes and a friendlier business climate will surely help?

or ...

Obvious, as in -- Higher taxes and more regulation to help the environment and build greener technology?

7 posted on 03/28/2012 7:34:06 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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To: humblegunner
The "author" of the newspaper or magazine web site is not pimping material here in order to get hits, are they?

Of course they are. The lifeblood of any web site that isn't member supported is the number of hits it gets.

8 posted on 03/28/2012 8:33:28 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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