James Pethokoukis
Politics and policy from inside Washington
Sarkozy: France on left side of Laffer Curve
This, from the president of France: “I will not increase taxes,” he said, “because an increase in taxes would delay the end of the crisis and because by increasing taxes, when we are at our level of taxation, we would not reduce deficits — we would increase them.”
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