Laffer curve cited directly by Laffer. For example, in 1924, Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon wrote: "It seems difficult for some to understand that high rates of taxation do not necessarily mean large revenue to the government, and that more revenue may often be obtained by lower rates". Exercising his understanding that "73% of nothing is nothing", he pushed for the reduction of the top income tax bracket from 73% to an eventual 24% (as well as tax breaks for lower brackets). Mellon was one of the wealthiest people in the United States, the third-highest income-tax payer in the mid-1920s, behind John
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