January 29, 2008 11:47AM # Laffer Curve Video By [Daniel J. Mitchell](https://www.cato.org/people/daniel-mitchell) --- SHARE Working in Washington can be very exasperating, and few issues are as frustrating as the Laffer Curve. Even market-friendly lawmakers frequently misinterpret the relationship between tax rates, taxable income, and tax revenue. The other 90 percent of politicians are even worse. Using straw-man arguments, they defend a revenue-estimating system that is based on the absurd notion that tax policy never has any impact on economic performance. I’ve complained vociferously (see [here](https://www.cato.org/2007/07/25/the-laffer-curve-separating-fact-from-fiction/), [here](https://www.cato.org/2007/10/19/the-laffer-curve-straw-man/), and [here](https://www.cato.org/2007/10/26/more-laffer-curve-straw-man-arguments/)), but that hasn’t worked. It’s time to try something new. Regular readers of this blog may have seen the videos I narrated on [tax competition](https://www.cato.org/2007/12/06/second-video-experiment/) and the [corporate income tax](https://www.cato.org/2007/09/18/experimental-video-on-lowering-the-corporate-tax-rate/). These videos, produced by the [Center for Freedom and Prosperity](http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/), will never compete with Pamela Anderson, but they seem to get a decent amount of traffic by public-policy standards. So the Center has now released a [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqyCpCPrvU) on the Laffer Curve with yours truly (a.k.a., the George Clooney of the free market movement) again serving as narrator. Indeed, this video is the first of a three-part series. I sent the video to Art Laffer, who was kind enough to say, “This video is a great common-sense tutorial that shows the real relationship between tax rates, taxable income, and tax revenue. I hope it is widely viewed so that more people understand the need for pro-growth tax policy.” But I also want negative feedback. As in previous cases, I would welcome suggestions on how to make these videos more effective. Needless to say, feel free to share all of them with your friends and colleagues. ##### Related Tags [Tax and Budget Policy](https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-policy) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).