Laffer curve tax revenues significantly and contributed to the massive increase in federal debt during the 1980s.". The Laffer curve and supply-side economics inspired Reaganomics and the Kemp-Roth Tax Cut of 1981. Supply-side advocates of tax cuts claimed that lower tax rates would generate more tax revenue because the United States government's marginal income tax rates prior to the legislation were on the "right-hand" side of the curve. This assertion was derided by George H. W. Bush as "voodoo economics" while running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980. During the Reagan presidency, the top marginal rate of tax in the
Laffer, South Australia which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Laffer had a population of 48 people. Laffer is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council. Laffer, South Australia Laffer is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s south-east about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the municipal seat in Bordertown. Its boundaries were created on 24 August 2000. Its name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Laffer which it occupies