{"id":59471,"date":"2021-10-07T06:56:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=59471"},"modified":"2021-10-07T06:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:56:26","slug":"the-day-i-took-on-arthur-laffer-and-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/10\/07\/the-day-i-took-on-arthur-laffer-and-won\/","title":{"rendered":"The day I took on Arthur Laffer &#8211; and won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this debate between Arthur Laffer (yes, him of the Laffer curve) and me that took place three years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6851496199221059584\/?midToken=AQESiH9fR9mw6A&amp;midSig=085Ha4LIZ7rpY1&amp;trk=eml-email_notification_single_mentioned_you_in_this_01-notifications-1-hero%7Ecard%7Efeed&amp;trkEmail=eml-email_notification_single_mentioned_you_in_this_01-notifications-1-hero%7Ecard%7Efeed-null-1b7qqs%7Ekufikkaq%7Ebr-null-voyagerOffline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by a post from the TaxCOOP<\/a> who organised it at the OECD in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The working language of the TaxCOOP is French - and if you don't speak it I am afraid you will have to skip some bits. Arthur Laffer and I spoke in English.<\/p>\n<p>And I will provide a spoiler - I won by 58% to 33%, with the rest undecided, or by 64% to 36% amongst those who actually registered a vote one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur was not amused. He'd been all charm beforehand. He did not speak again afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grand D\u00e9bat \/ Taxcoop 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4aetIRCfeSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this debate between Arthur Laffer (yes, him of the Laffer curve) and me that took place three years ago by a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/10\/07\/the-day-i-took-on-arthur-laffer-and-won\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10,33,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-compliance","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}