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Mr. Prescott, co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics, is director of the Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University. Mr. Ohanian, the associate director of the center, is a professor of economics at UCLA and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Research by others (including Lee Ohanian, Andrea Raffo and Richard Rogerson in the Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, and Edward Prescott in the American Economic Review, 2002) indicates that raising tax rates further will significantly reduce U.S. economic activity and by implication will increase tax revenues only a little.
Prescott and Ohanian: Taxes Are Much Higher Than You Think - WSJ.com
Those who can read and comprehend this article will learn. Those who can't should get some person to explain it to them. There will be those who continue to believe that this administration knows what is good for our economy. Therefore, reading or listening to any other economic information is not necessary.
Research by others (including Lee Ohanian, Andrea Raffo and Richard Rogerson in the Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, and Edward Prescott in the American Economic Review, 2002) indicates that raising tax rates further will significantly reduce U.S. economic activity and by implication will increase tax revenues only a little.
Prescott and Ohanian: Taxes Are Much Higher Than You Think - WSJ.com
Those who can read and comprehend this article will learn. Those who can't should get some person to explain it to them. There will be those who continue to believe that this administration knows what is good for our economy. Therefore, reading or listening to any other economic information is not necessary.