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- From: rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Keynes on the Laffer Curve and balanced budgets
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.121440.4573@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Organization: The 1991 World Champion Minnesota Twins!
- References: <1992Nov18.141138.5691@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 12:14:40 CST
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- In article <1992Nov18.141138.5691@desire.wright.edu>, demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man) writes:
- > "taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given
- > sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better
- > chance, than an increase, of balancing the budget." --John Maynard Keynes
- > (1933).
- >
- > Perhaps near the end of his life Keynes was seeing the light. It only
- > took the rest of the country 50 years :).
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- "near the end of his life"? Keynes' _The General Theory of Employment,
- Interest and Money_ was published in 1936 and Keynes was the leading British
- delegate at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. Keynes died in 1946.
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- > Brett
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