If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
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… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
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 Copy Share
What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch,… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare,… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share
