immediate (short-term) increases in government revenue; (2) the prohibitive zone is larger than Laffer originally hypothesized …

positive output effects without also cutting government spending? 4. Should we let our answer to the second and third questions …

conser- vation argue that resources must be conserved by government decree. Their position is based largely on a distrust of …

existing taxes stand apart from the danger that the government will merely add it on to present taxes, I don’t believe we …

least call for both a “minimalstate’’andasharplimitationuponthescopeandthelevel of government activity. This … insistence upon limited government, especially in the area of economic regulation, has greater intellec- tual and popular … intervention in environmental matters, even by those who see themselves as hostile to big government... …

, neutral to the market. Free-market economists have advocated such neutrality of government, and even economists favoring … redistributive actions by government have believed that the service activities and the re- distributive activities of government can … neutral government; the paper argues that all government activities necessari(y divert incomes, re- sources, and assets from …