The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let it Happen
by Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore Peter Tanousbook data
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October 7th 2008
by Threshold Editions
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Hardcover, 320 pages
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1416592385
(isbn13: 9781416592389)
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Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moor...more
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Read in April, 2009
Expert look at heated tax debate
Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore and Peter J. Tanous give Ronald Reagan full credit for laying the foundation for decades of U.S. prosperity. They see today’s government programs as a return to the worst of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. The authors find it strange that the U.S. is adopting a more European model just as many European countries are moving more toward Reaganomics. They suggest a different pa...more
Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore and Peter J. Tanous give Ronald Reagan full credit for laying the foundation for decades of U.S. prosperity. They see today’s government programs as a return to the worst of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. The authors find it strange that the U.S. is adopting a more European model just as many European countries are moving more toward Reaganomics. They suggest a different pa...more
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Read in June, 2009
A good sound look at how economic practices can help or harm the economy, from Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush's tax cuts that launched a wave of prosperity, to the protectionist tariffs and high taxes of the 1970s and the destructive socialism from Wilson to the New Deal and Great Society and now Obama's bailouts, proposed tax increases, and profligate spending.
There is a solution that will fix or ameliorate many of the mounting problems, which many countries in Europe have successfully adopted...more
There is a solution that will fix or ameliorate many of the mounting problems, which many countries in Europe have successfully adopted...more
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Read in March, 2009
I have always maintained there are two sides of the story. Surprisingly there are more things that I agree with this book than what I originally expected e.g. I'm in favor for a simpler/flat tax code (even though I would propose zero deductions), immigration reform, free trade,etc. I disagree with a couple of positions like death tax but overall a good book easy to read with several facts to back views. However, even though book praises policies in Ireland, Estonia, Russia, etc. when a global ec...more
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Read in December, 2008
A good review of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the history of economic policies in the US and what we might expect from the incoming regime.
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Read in December, 2008
Whether you agree with the principles or not, its a refreshing splash of cold water in the face during all the government bailout talk, in this time that "everyone is a Keynesian".
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Read in January, 2009
An excellent read! I learned a lot from this book.
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Read in January, 2009
This was a great informative book. Easy to read.
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Read in November, 2008
Informally written, but a good resource for background about our current economic woes (and why most of the currently proposed remedies won't work).
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11/03/08
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I think this book should be required reading for those about to vote in this presidential election.
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