If supply-siders were right that small tax-rate changes have large effects on the rich's labor supply, then 2010 should be a massive boom year for work by America's rich (anticipating 2011 tax hikes), making labor supply shift hay-making forward; Jones predicts this will not happen, because labor supply responds to tax rates far less than supply-siders claim.

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Garrett Jones

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2010 boom year if the supply siders are right that's another one of my tweets and you think they're gonna be wrong I think they're gonna be wrong on this

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Garett Jones on Macro and Twitter 02/22/2010EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:36 AM

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