The end of prosperity : how higher taxes will doom the economy--if we let it happen / by Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter J. Tanous.

Incluye bibliografía.

The gathering economic storm -- How a cocktail napkin changed the world: the Laffer curve -- We can do bettah: tax-cutting lessons from the twentieth century -- Honey, we shrunk the economy: the awful 1970s -- The twenty-five-year boom: The Reagan economic revolution -- What Bill Clinton could teach Barack Obama -- How George W. Bush soaked the rich -- Bankruptcy 90210: as goes California, so goes the nation -- Socialism, non, the Laffer curve, oui: supply-side economics takes the world by storm -- How to create a bull market: the capital gains tax validates the Laffer curve -- Throw momma from the train: the unfair estate tax -- Protectionism then and now: the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 -- Many happy returns: the flat tax solution -- The death of economic sanity -- Protecting your investments in the troubled times ahead.

Makes cautionary predictions about the consequences of higher taxes that may be imposed by a Democratic president, in an account that considers the downside of reversed Reaganomics pro-growth policies as envisioned by such political leaders as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi.