Reply #1: No respectable economist touches the Laffer cureve...

[TreasonousBastard]

and few ever did. (Assuming "respectable economist is not an oxymoron)

But, it stills sounds great on the stump and guarantees a few votes amongst the economically challenged. What amazed me is with the generally abyssmal ignorance of even the basics of economics beyond the sound bites and labels, most people I run into have manged to figure out that trickle down and other tax cut urban legends are bullshit.

Not to say that a lot of people don't want their bosses to get huge tax cuts because they live in hope that they, too, will once be in that bracket.