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<title><![CDATA[Arthur Laffer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16364.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Laffer]]></description><category domain="16364">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA['Borrow-and-Spend' Stimulus Bill Is a Fiscal Monstrosity]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/531327-borrow-and-spend-stimulus-bill-is-a-fiscal-monstrosity</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 5,000-page, $900 billion fiscal stimulus legislation passed by Congress is not a jobs bill, and it will do far more short- and long-term damage to the U.S. economy than good.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Suspend the Payroll Tax]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/suspend-the-payroll-tax-11587316945?emailToken=65263eebea0dbfc44e67cacb419b5b2bnRrnEu5YwSU1dhU7EqY8C0Dbj8Y7umc/8MgQl7vwkPylQtFfZdtry4dkaMNK2ggdGQAcn3sPLus6MpuM+8XKtA%3D%3D&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every worker in America would get a substantial pay raise for the remainder of the year, while employer payroll costs fall.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prosperity of Trump Era Marks Real Turning Point in History]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/399324-american-prosperity-of-trump-era-marks-real-turning-point-in-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gross domestic product, or GDP, is the measure of choice when assessing the health of any economy, especially in the United States. GDP, which is measured at annual rates, includes the value of production of all goods and services produced in a country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So Long, California. Sayonara, New York]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Blue states will lose millions of people in the years to come'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and they aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t ready.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorry, Dems, It's the Red States That Are 'Dynamic']]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/25/no-hillary-its-the-red-states-that-are-dynamic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is being universally panned by Republicans and Democrats for her rant last week in India against'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' voters. She boasted, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I won the places that represent two-thirds of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Needs a Return to King Dollar]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/17/trump_needs_a_return_to_king_dollar_136297.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress have passed one of the best pro-growth tax bills ever. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ranks in the all-time hall of fame along with former President Reagan's 1981 and 1986 tax acts, and former President Kennedy's posthumous tax cuts in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tax Cut Victory Before Labor Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/a-tax-cut-victory-before-labor-day/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress must act with much more urgency and decisiveness on tax cuts. In recent weeks the tax cut agenda seems stalled out and the delays and indecision are negatively affecting growth and the stock market. We hear that a tax plan from the White...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Governors and Mayors Should Be Begging for Trump's Tax Cut]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Expanding the economy means more revenue for states and cities'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'just as it did in Reagan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s day.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Tax Plan Should Follow the Reagan Model]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/arthur-laffer-trumps-tax-plan-should-follow-the-reagan-model/article/2621763</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, President Trump announced his outline for changes to the tax code. Fortunately, the plan he laid out did not include the border adjustment tax, the linchpin of the plan proposed by Republican leadership in the House of Representatives. In the way of Trump's announcement, some...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why's the GOP Making Tax Reform So Hard?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/opinion/why-are-republicans-making-tax-reform-so-hard.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the health care blowup, President Trump and the Republicans need a legislative victory. Tax reform probably should have gone first, but now is the time to move it forward with urgency.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Paul and Cruz Flat Tax Plans Are Best Tax Proposals]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-brain-trust/112015-781892-paul-and-cruz-flat-tax-proposals-best-candidate-tax-plans.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As we've cheerfully noted on these pages, the good news on the presidential campaign trail is that almost all Republicans are now for serious pro-growth tax reform and simplification. Every candidate wants lower rates (some a one-rate flat tax), fewer loopholes and carve-outs, and a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California's High-Tax, Big-Government Comedown]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-brain-trust/050814-700188-california-golden-years-are-over-as-high-taxes-overregulation-push-jobs-out.htm?ref=HPLNews&amp;p=full</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever watched Animal Planet should be familiar with migrations. Geese do it, wildebeests and whales do it, turtles do it and, yes, people do it too. To migrate is a natural phenomenon.What's interesting about most migrations is their purposes are generally positive: sex,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real &quot;Stimulus&quot; Record]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577537244225685010.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Policy makers in Washington and other capitals around the world are debating whether to implement another round of stimulus spending to combat high unemployment and sputtering growth rates. But before they leap, they should take a good hard look at how that worked the first time...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Blazes the Wrong Trail]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/607901/201204161652/california-blazes-wrong-trail-on-tax-hikes-for-rich.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tuesday is Tax Day. There's no better time to take a closer look at the "tax-first" policies being bandied about by lawmakers in an attempt to dig this country out from under its debt.The wise men of the political establishment soberly tell us that raising rates on high-income earners is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cain's Stimulating 9-9-9 Tax Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204346104576637310315367804.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It used to be that the sole purpose of the tax code was to raise the necessary funds to run government. But in today's world the tax mandate has many more facets. These include income redistribution, encouraging favored industries, and discouraging unfavorable behavior.To make matters...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 30-Cent Tax Premium]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116404576262761032853554.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a lot more to taxes than simply paying the bill. Taxpayers  must spend significantly more than $1 in order to provide $1 of  income-tax revenue to the federal government.To start with, individuals and  businesses must pay the government the $1 in revenue plus the costs of  their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Learned From Reaganomics]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704364004576132473777840938.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For 16 years prior to Ronald Reagan's presidency, the U.S. economy was in a tailspin'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'a result of bipartisan ignorance that resulted in tax increases, dollar devaluations, wage and price controls, minimum-wage hikes, misguided spending, pandering to unions, protectionist measures and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bill Gates Income Tax]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520241519315372.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Framed on a wall in my office is a personal letter to me from Bill Gates the elder. "I am a fan of progressive taxation," he wrote. "I would say our country has prospered from using such a system'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'even at 70% rates to say nothing of 90%."It's one thing to believe in bad policy. It's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Soak-the-Rich Catch-22]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703977004575393882112674598.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tax reduction thus sets off a process that can bring gains for everyone, gains won by marshalling resources that would otherwise stand idle - workers without jobs and farm and factory capacity without markets. Yet many taxpayers seemed prepared to deny the nation the fruits of tax...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tax Hikes &amp; the 2011 Economic Collapse]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704113504575264513748386610.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.It shouldn't surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are the nine...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taxes, Depression &amp; Our Current Troubles]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574402822202944230.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 1930s has become the sole object lesson for today's monetary policy. Over the past 12 months, the Federal Reserve has increased the monetary base (bank reserves plus currency in circulation) by well over 100%. While currency in circulation has grown slightly, there's been an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Would Be Worse Than Doing Nothing]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204619004574324361508092006.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is correct when he says that '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'soaring health-care costs make our current course unsustainable.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Many Americans agree: 55% of respondents to a recent CNN poll think the U.S. health-care system needs a great deal of reform. Yet 70% of Americans are satisfied with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem with Energy Independence]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122956305965116735.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Increased Spending Will Make Things Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www1.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-24/reagans-economist-bashes-obama/1/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Age of Prosperity is Over]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Laffer</author>
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