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Has the 50% rate taken us over the Laffer Curve peak or not?
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Regardless of what you think of the Hubbert Curve and peak oil theory more generally, the amount of oil on Earth is limited.
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Say that the discussed paper is correct, that 56% is that peak of the curve.
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In the UK we seem to be a little over that peak of the curve in our taxation.
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Here is the peak of the curve, the moment of collaborative innovation.
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The argument is actually about where is the peak of that curve?
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The Diamond and Saetz paper that tried to calculate the peak of the curve for the US tells us that for federal income tax is probably around 54%.
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There are other taxes paid on incomes (national insurance, our equivalent of social security, Medicaid and so on) making that 40% or so as an income tax rate alone the peak of the curve.
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Most students of economics are familiar with the Laffer curve, named by Dr. Art Laffer, which demonstrates how higher taxes do not necessarily mean a higher tax yield, with there being a point (the peak of his curve) after which total revenue falls when the tax rate increases.
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But what we can be sure of is that the peak of the Rahn Curve is much closer to zero than to where we are now.
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Given this possibility of simple exit from any and all of the European tax systems (and such exit does not require that one stays in the EU either) the theoretical peak of the Laffer Curve is lower in Europe than it is in the US. Where such exit is very much more difficult.
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Yield-curve critics say there are better leading indicators for a recession, such as housing permits (which tend to peak 17 months before the recession starts) and consumer confidence (which dips 3 to 9 months ahead of a downturn).
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