Arthur Laffer Quotes

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

The most equitable way to substantially reduce the deficit is to delay reductions in the top tax bracket for upper-income taxpayers.

I would like to get the tax rate as low as possible so that businesses want to create jobs here.

Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In other words, the tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.

Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.