Screen LibraryThe end of prosperity：how higher taxes will doom the economy--if we let it happen
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Threshold Editions,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 336 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781416592389 1416592385 |
| Index Number: | F817 |
| CLC: |
F817.120 F171.20 |
| Call Number: | F817.120/L163 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-324) and index. The gathering economic storm -- How a cocktail napkin changed the world: the Laffer curve -- We can do bettah: tax-cutting lessons from the twentieth century -- Honey, we shrunk the economy: the awful 1970s -- The twenty-five-year boom: The Reagan economic revolution -- What Bill Clinton could teach Barack Obama -- How George W. Bush soaked the rich -- Bankruptcy 90210: as goes California, so goes the nation -- Socialism, non, the Laffer curve, oui: supply-side economics takes the world by storm -- How to create a bull market: the capital gains tax validates the Laffer curve -- Throw momma f Makes cautionary predictions about the consequences of higher taxes that may be imposed by a Democratic president, in an account that considers the downside of reversed Reaganomics pro-growth policies as envisioned by such political leaders as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi. |