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Arthur Laffer

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And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.


— Arthur Laffer


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And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.


— Arthur Laffer


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It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.


— Arthur Laffer


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


— Arthur Laffer


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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


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Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.


— Arthur Laffer


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


— Arthur Laffer


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People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.


— Arthur Laffer


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Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.


— Arthur Laffer


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The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.


— Arthur Laffer


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About Arthur Laffer






Did you know about Arthur Laffer?

in Economics from Yale University (1962) and an M. Laffer earned a B. A.

Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve an illustration of the theory that there exists some tax rate between 0% and 100% that will result in maximum tax revenue for governments. : /ˈlæfər/; born August 14 1940) is an American economist who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981–89).

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