"Next Wednesday, Donald Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our country’s highest civilian honor, to the arch-conservative economist Art Laffer. (...) For his dubious role as the “godfather” of Reaganomics, Slate dubbed him World’s Worst Economist. (...) So why exactly is Trump awarding such a man with the nation’s highest civilian honor?"

Ever heard of Lysenkoism?

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

"The Laffer curve has done immense damage to the US economy in the forty years since its inception. It also ignores a fundamental reality: tax cuts for the rich don’t work.

Each and every time state or federal governments have tested Laffer’s trickle-down theory, deficits balloon, rich folks hoard their wealth at the top, and average Americans suffer."

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