Lawrence Kudlow Quotes

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

Faced with a deep recession, some say the answer is to expand the role of government.

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

JFK and Reagan's growth model included tax cuts and a steady dollar. Trump has taken a gigantic step toward restoring prosperity with his tax-cut-centered fiscal policy.

You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers for penalizing economic success and possibly further stalling economic growth.

The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.