Arthur Laffer Quotes

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.

You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates.

Tax reform is taking taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed.