Arthur Laffer he learned it from Ibn Khaldun and John Maynard Keynes. A simplified view of the theory is that tax revenues would be zero if tax rates were either 0% or 100%, and somewhere in between 0% and 100% is a tax rate which maximizes total revenue. Laffer's postulate was that the tax rate that maximizes revenue was at a much lower level than previously believed: so low that current tax rates were above the level where revenue is maximized. Numerous leading economists have rejected the view that a tax rate cut of current federal US income taxes can lead to
According to Spike Milligan there are running gags about Dr. Frankenstein's sea voyages during which his ship sinks, the monster disappearing mysteriously because he runs at speeds of 100 mph, and notes by an editor (Milligan) making sarcastic remarks about events in the novel. "The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan" is a spoof of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The plot is almost the same as the original, the main differences being that the Spike Milligan version is considerably shorter, and there is more humorous content. Written from the viewpoint of Dr. Watson (who is accompanied