Creative Arithmetic In Support of Reaganism at the Washington Post

Many newspapers require that people writing columns carefully document the factual claims they make. The Washington Post is not in this category as readers of Steve Moore's column touting the wisdom of the Laffer Curve must know. I won't go into the details of the misrepresentations in the piece. Paul Krugman has done some of this work here, and PGL at Econospeak adds more.

I will just make a couple of quick additional points. First, no one ever disputed that high tax rates have a negative i...