Andrew Quote by Amity Shlaes

Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

— Amity Shlaes

You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the…

— Ronald Reagan

“Once in public office, Mellon helped define the 1920s as an era during which business succeeded in rolling back many of the Progressive Era’s…

— Jane Mayer

Arthur Laffer's idea, that lowering taxes could increase revenues, was logically correct. If tax rates are high enough, then people will go to such…

— Richard Thaler

“Andrew Mellon himself would have been pleased with the succession of hefty tax cuts that Reagan pushed through Congress. He slashed corporate and individual…

— Jane Mayer

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow…

— Sidney Blumenthal

“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it…

— Thomas Sowell

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than…

— Amity Shlaes

Coolidge really hated government being in the power business. He thought it was wrong. He saw the potential for growth in the power business.…

— Amity Shlaes

Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all the way…

— Jeb Hensarling

“George Mason’s economics department, meanwhile, became a hotbed of controversial theories that began to transform Americans’ tax bills, serving as an incubator for the…

— Jane Mayer

Coolidge cut the budget, and even better, cut it during peace and prosperity. He left a federal budget lower than the one that greeted…

— Amity Shlaes