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Arthur Laffer

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

Raising taxes is not a frivolous venture that you do on the editorial page of ‘The New Republic,’ for god sakes. It’s something that you really have to think about and go through carefully.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

Ask me whether inflation represents longer-term problem. I think there’s a potential there for excess reserves to create problems.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

What we’re talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

When you look at the government, when the government collects a buck, it’s not free. They have to spend resources, the IRS, audits, all this sort of crap, to collect the dollar. I’m not assuming any Laffer curve effect here at all. There are just transactions costs of collecting that money.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

Over the past 100 years, there have been three major periods of tax-rate cuts in the U.S.: the Harding-Coolidge cuts of the mid-1920s; the Kennedy cuts of the mid-1960s; and the Reagan cuts of the early 1980s. Each of these periods of tax cuts was remarkably successful as measured by virtually any public policy metric.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.

– Arthur Laffer

Arthur Laffer

California is the highest-tax state in the nation and has been for a long time. It has the highest-paid teachers in the nation, by far – $400 a month more than New Jersey – and yet California is the third lowest state on test scores for fourth and eighth grade English and math in the nation, and has been at the low level for a long, long time.

– Arthur Laffer

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