Regarding the economy, the Democrats could try to position themselves as better supply-siders than Republicans.
The Supply Siders failed to anchor in the political culture the imperative of good monetary policy.
Many buy-siders already believe abusing information is all too often in a day's work on Wall Street.
We had some fun discussing why it is that supply-siders and libertarians tend to be optimistic types.
Economic policy, thanks to Kemp and his inner circle of supply siders, would never be the same.
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Supply siders can agree with the Zakarias and Friedmans on the importance of free trade, and we should.
Supply siders talk up tax cuts that ultimately boost revenues as though this is somehow a good thing.
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Supply-siders believe that permanent cuts in marginal tax rates (particularly on savings and investment) will increase economic growth.
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It's controversial because many libertarian supply-siders would dispute the notion that supply-side policy and government spending can ever coexist.
My own opinions arise from the conservative-libertarian quadrant, and within that quadrant, the corner occupied by entrepreneurs, supply-siders and optimists.
Conservatives and supply-siders who should know better are buying the Bush plan on the grounds that it will spur economic growth.
Most supply-siders and the odd super bull like could not disagree more.
Supply-siders are correct in saying that Ford was not a Reaganesque tax-cutter, but we shouldn't forget that in the mid-1970s neither was Ronald Reagan.
As promising as the FDP's current rise is, by next year, supply siders and "locusts" may have a much harder time again in Germany.
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However, once Romney had sewed up the nomination, supply-siders started projecting their hopes onto him, and ignoring what he was actually saying and doing.
Supply-siders rightly argue that widespread tax cheating is a sign that taxes are too high, that they are driving productive people into the black market.
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Supply-siders know that the key to economic growth is capital investment.
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I watched my father -- (applause) -- we got a few South Siders here? (Applause.) That's good.
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Supply Siders led by Steve Forbes, Lew Lehrman and Sean Fieler (institutes who the latter two chair this columnist professionally advises) also call for restoring the gold standard.
Larry, like all supply-siders, is first and foremost an enthusiast.
How odd it is, Peter mused, that the U.S. is moving sharply away from libertarianism and toward statism, yet the most optimistic investors tend to be supply-siders and libertarians!
Some supply siders argue that higher taxes on any form of income is self defeating since it slows economic activity sufficiently to reduce the tax take to the government.
Led by Larry Lindsey, a former Federal Reserve governor, Bush's team is like a conservative All-Star squad from the Reagan-Bush years, a combination of supply-siders like Anderson and Harvard's Martin Feldstein, with do-no-harm pragmatists like Boskin.
In other words, although Anderson saw, as Keynesians did not, that interest rates are a function of economic growth, he also saw, as some modern supply siders do not, that interest rates are not identical to economic growth.
See, because growing up on the South Side of Chicago -- and I know we have some South Siders here -- (applause) -- I watched my father make that same uncomplaining journey every day to his job at the city water plant.
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Supply siders, and I consider myself one of them, might point out that if Bush had hung out in Crawford (TX) throughout his presidency that the economy would have suffered for the 2003 tax cuts on income and capital gains not being passed.
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Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I watched my father -- (applause) -- we've got some South Siders here, some Chicagoans -- but I watched my father make that same uncomplaining journey every day to his job at the city water plant.
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