# Why do lower taxes bring in more revenue?

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**Created:** [October 22, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-lower-taxes-bring-in-more-revenue/671894 "2013-10-22T01:46:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-lower-taxes-bring-in-more-revenue/671894/33 "2013-10-23T16:01:27Z")

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> [@Dbgb4](#):
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> I have no dog in this fight, sitting in the middle of political spectrum. To me this is one of those questions in which both sides are right ……….up to a certain point.  
> So each side of the argument is correct up to a certain point, then it becomes incorrect. The problem is neither side will acknowledge the point at which their assertions become false.

See post 19. I am unaware of any liberal who says that it is never right to lower taxes. I know of some conservatives (not Reagan) who seem to think it is never right to raise them. As I said, the trick is knowing where you are on the curve.

Since conservatives agree about the end points, but think that lowering taxes will always raise revenue, maybe they shouldn’t call it the Laffer Curve but the Escher Curve instead.

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