Well, we must remember Donald is not a rightist; he’s a centrist.
“Conservative” desiderata will sometimes not be met. The classic definition of wise taxation is something like “Getting the most feathers with the least hissing.” Like it or not, America now has a Brobdingnagian bill to pay down. The Laffer tax curve still holds, and Donald will be backing down tax rates to allow business to rise. Whatever staff is needed at the IRS to effect the best performance on its part, that’s what will be allocated. Without regard to conservative pushback desiderata. We’re architecting a future — not paying back a political past.
There is a not-so-subtle flaw in both the feathers-hissing analogy and the Laffer curve. Both start with the premise that maximizing taxes collected is the right thing to do.
In reality, we need to do something similar to the Laffer curve, but plot GDP vs. tax rate, and optimize tax rate for maximum GDP.
We could call this the CurlyDave curve.