Cut salaries, taxes to reopen U.S. economy says Laffer, conservative fave
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican economist Art Laffer, an architect of the Reagan era tax cuts that paved the way for historic budget deficits in the United States, has a plan to rejuvenate today's pandemic-crippled economy. Tax non-profits. Cut the pay of public officials and professors. Give businesses and workers who manage to hold on to their jobs a payroll tax holiday to the end of the year. What about the extra aid funneled to newly jobless workers by the $2.3 trillion fiscal rescue..