# When does the Laffer Curve kick in, if at all?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 28, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-the-laffer-curve-kick-in-if-at-all/504588 "2009-07-28T20:18:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-the-laffer-curve-kick-in-if-at-all/504588/81 "2009-08-10T19:19:32Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> People apparently don’t view top marginal rates above 50% as excessively confiscatory either.

Doesn’t movement along the curve to avoid taxes only happen at the extremes? I always thought that the argument for more tax revenue after a tax cut was greater economic activity, not that people would stop cheating on their taxes. I’m not saying I buy, it but you have to give them their due.

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**Author:** ![IdahoMauleMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71c47a/32.png) [@IdahoMauleMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IdahoMauleMan)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-the-laffer-curve-kick-in-if-at-all/504588/82 "2009-08-11T00:50:02Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> People apparently don’t view top marginal rates above 50% as excessively confiscatory either.

At least one does. And I’d be willing to bet, probably two or three.

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