Category Archives: Laffer Curve

Right Wing or Left Wing – There Are Still No Free Lunches

Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Deficit spending, Ecological Economics, Economics, Environment, Federal Debt, First Law of Economics, Future generations, Global Change, Green New Deal, Herman Daly, Inequality, Laffer Curve, Modern Monetary Theory, Opinion, Ponzi scheme, Rent Seeking, Taxes, Trump
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Readers of Stirring the Pot know that I am deeply concerned about the issues of global climate change and inequality in the United States.  Climate change, or the larger issue of global change, is an existential threat to modern human civilization.  Inequality strikes at the very heart of the American ideal of “liberty and justice […]

Political Courage and Cowardice on Taxes

Economics, Gas Tax, Growth, Inequality, Laffer Curve, Maine, Maine Politics, Opinion, Public Policy, Taxes, Trump, Values
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The trouble with taxes is that no one likes to pay them.  We want the services of government (good roads, public schools, national defense, a functioning court system, etc.) but would rather that someone else pay for these things.  Yet taxation is necessary in modern society.  Taxes are needed to fund what economists call public […]