http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/videos/laffercurve1-3/laffercurve1-3.shtml

Your snide “pithy’ comment really does you a great discredit. The posting of unpersuasive, even ignorant links about something that has never been refuted, much less seriously challenged is truly silly. The Laffer Curve describes a fact, it does not come as a result of the theoretical nonsense that abounds in Economic thought these days. It is empirical, something that the leftist Economists have serious problems with because they are not scientists in the true sense. Even Laffer, has problems with Science as he made a serious fool of himself several years ago in a debate with Schiff. Laffer is now eating those words, but not on the curve my friend. That is about axiomatic as you can get in Economics.

Like I said earlier, upgrade your education and start thinking through what you are going to write. You won’t make a fool of your self as Laffer did that way.

I will agree with you on this point: We don’t have professional legislators — they have to have real jobs to pay the bills the other 590 days. Keeps them grounded in reality. I don’t know how workable that would be on a Federal level.

Texas has seemed to do very well for itself with low taxes, low help for anyone who needs it, etc.

Texas also does very well when it comes to teen pregnancies:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/02/27/when-in-texas-just-say-i-dont-know

And Texas has also done very well, above national average, for people in poverty:
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?ind=16&cat=1&rgn=45
http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/12_2_0.html

Something to be proud of, no? Congratulations! Obviously the “laboratory of government” is a great success!

Is this the system you want for everyone? I’ll pass.

Phalanx08

Please, pray tell, point out how either of these articles point to “financial problems” on anything approaching a California or NY scale. The DMN article points to needed budgetary savings that will help balance the Texas budget — pretty low hanging fruit. The other is actually from the Austin American Statesman, the most liberal paper in the state. Guess what? Liberals don’t think taxes are high enough. News at 10 (here in Texas, that when we get the news, ya’ see).

Texas isn’t in the crapper, because the state hasn’t tried to solve every ache and pain of every citizen with the public checkbook. The Legislature, by law, meets every two years for 140 days (the old joke is that they got it backwards). We don’t have professional legislators — they have to have real jobs to pay the bills the other 590 days. Keeps them grounded in reality. As a right to work state, unions, especially public employee unions, are weak. We could start with those two principles in reforming DC. As I drive on the gleaming new highways, see the stores jammed with people spending money, see job listings every day, and people streaming in and out of model homes, it appears that the laboratory of government has declared this experiment to be the successful one. NY, CA, NJ, MI? Not so much.

So, please, put the strawmen back in the toy box.

thanks,

Phalanx08

*passing 55-gallon bowl to center ring*