Posted on 09/15/2010 6:32:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Liberals don't like the Laffer Curve. If you have any doubts, Google "‘Laffer Curve' +discredited" and peruse the 13,400 hits you get. Well, if Liberals hate the Laffer Curve (and they do), they are really going to hate the Woodhill Curve.
Professor Laffer originally stated his principle as follows: "For any tax, there are always two tax rates (a high one and a low one) that will produce the same revenue." The example he cited was that tax rates of zero and 100% would both bring in the same amount of revenue-namely, zero.
The Woodhill Curve extends the concept of the Laffer Curve in two ways:
1) It takes into account the element of time-the fact that the future matters; and,
2) It focuses on the impact of tax changes on total Federal revenues rather than on the revenue generated by an individual tax.
The principle behind the Woodhill Curve can be stated as follows: "There are an infinite number of combinations of "tax take" (Federal revenues as a percent of GDP) and average annual real economic growth rate that will yield the same present value (PV) of future Federal revenues." While the shape of the Laffer Curve is a matter for speculation, it is possible to quantify the shape of the Woodhill Curve. As it happens, the results of the calculations are very bad news for liberal tax hikers, but very good news for supply-side tax cutters.
Financially, it is the PV of Federal revenues that really matters, not just tax revenues in the current year. This is why the Social Security Trustees use PV as their ultimate measure of the long-term financial condition of Social Security.
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So, where’s the curve?
You can’t discredit an idea that is self evidently true. You can argue about where we are on the curve.
And I don’t know how you can argue about that since EVERY time we lower tax rates revenues increase.
Well, Obama basically said he’s going to increase the tax on “the rich”, not because it will increase revenues but because “it’s the right thing to do.”
“You can not use reason to argue a man out of a position he didn’t use reason to get into.” - Somebody Famous.
I made my own personal Laffer Curve and added the Atlas Shrugged point. Everyone has one.
Thank you.
Add this to my list
Laffer Curve
Hauser’s Law
Woodhill Curve
Liberals can’t do math.
Nor do they understand that there are consequences to their actions.
And, the Democrats and RINO's know it full well. Despite what they constantly spew, taxation from the gubmint's perspective isn't all about raising money. Taxation at this point is far more about controlling behavior. When you control behavior you have power. Power is what they are after, not money. They are admitting it every time they claim they want to raise taxes in order to raise gubmint revenue. Exactly the opposite happens. Now, if we could just get another Conservative to stand up and articulate that point as well as Reagan did......
Interesting question: What is the Atlas Shrugged point?
The peak? 50% drop? 75% drop?
I is painful beyond endurance to think a fellow citizen would deliberately destroy our country, but I am reluctantly coming to that conclusion.
The follower Libs may not realize the consequences of the policies they support, but you can bet your last dollar that the elitist establishment Liberals know exactly the consequences of their actions and it ain't about making the country prosper.....
I don't even know whether college economics majors these days have any exposure to Laffer's theory, though it's been proved by real life experience whenever tax cuts have been tried. Actually, the idea of lower tax rates as a stimulus to the economy didn't start with Laffer; it goes back at least to the 1920s and Andrew Carnegie.
When you look at things like the deliberate dumbing down of the country through the publik skools, the way they cozy up to Marxist thugs, allowing Iran to get the bomb while simultaneously pulling out the missile defenses from eastern Europe, the way we've gone from barely speaking to China to being their largest debtor in less than 40 years, and all the other things contrary to America's success that I haven't mentioned, it becomes clear that the strategy is to weaken the USA to the point of collapse. It's Cloward-Piven. There's really no other explanation and it's been going on for a very long time on both sides of the aisle.....
Thanx. I had not heard of that.
Not unlike inflation, everyone has their own value (including projected NPV including expected changes in marginal rates).
I'm well past ascribing that to ignorance, it's malice. The consequences they talk about arent' the consequences they want. If your sole goal is power over all others, then it's easiest done if all others are totally impoverished.
They did it before when the USSR broke up. The talk was of worry about the 'ruble overhang'. Common folks had saved up rubles, as there was not much to spend them on. So TPTB redefined the ruble to smash the savings, and so could pick up ownership of the now-privatized national wealth for pocket change.
Hatches, Bushes, Dingles, Pelosis(D'Alesandros), Reids, Bidens, Cuomos, McCains, Fords,...
It's a good list to start and keep in front of the Tea Party.
+ Hatches, Bushes, Dingles, Pelosis(D'Alesandros), Reids, Bidens, Cuomos, McCains, Fords,...
It's a good list to start and keep in front of the Tea Party.
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