Luridly Loathsome Laffer

Nov 6th, 2011
by F. Grey Parker

As much as rational economists from both right and left continue to hope that Art Laffer will, at long last, simply shut up, Mr. Laffer shows no signs of doing so. Nor, it would seem, does he have any interest in lessening the actual damage to our country that he has done over the course of two generations. In fact, Mr. Laffer continues to double down on promoting the very policies which have brought us to our knees.

Yesterday afternoon, Neil Cavuto hosted Mr. Laffer over at Fox Business.

Something so very wrong was said that it cannot go unchallenged; It was not any part of the predictable litany of anti-Obamaisms. Nor was it Mr. Laffer's pandering declaration that the stimulus is "the reason we have... high unemployment." What was truly shocking was Cavuto's description of Mr. Laffer as "about as fair and balanced an economist as you're going to get."



This is rather like describing Idi Amin as having been a well rounded humanitarian.