Unfair Measure of the Laffer Curve

I didn't mean to imply it validated the Laffer Curve or not. That was just the context of the overall discussion. But it is preposterous that Europe has to have tax rates that high to get the same per capita revenue, no? The income differences can't be because of innate human capital differences, etc. It's not really a Laffer Curve story at all. Why is Europe so much less wealthy? I know of one book that helps answer that question :)

So, the US collects more taxes per capita not due to lower tax rates but due to higher GDP per capita? Did you ever think the US has a higher GDP per capita due to lower tax rates? Therefore, lower tax rates leads to higher GDP per capita leading to higher tax rate collections (Laffer Curve).

The piece by Tino is laughable. Bartlett clearly did not say that the top marginal rate should be 83%. He is taking Bruce out of context. He merely cites a paper in his quote. Bartlett clearly says he does not think the top marginal rate should be above 50%. Tino needs to apologize. Reading is fundamental.

I'm not sure that "attacking the right" means you "are on the left."

I was going to look up what Bartlett said, but he responded on his blog, so I'll just http://www.capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/bruce-bartlett/1899/am-i-right-or-left.