Amount Quote by Arthur Laffer

If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference is due…

— Arthur Laffer

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

States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely…

— Lawrence Kudlow

Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In the year…

— Robert Higgs

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies…

— Thomas Sowell

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

— Anonymous

Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

— Bob Holden

There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of…

— Arthur Laffer

Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the…

— Judy Woodruff

“According to our estimates, the optimal top tax rate in the developed countries is probably above 80 percent.50 Do not be misled by the…

— Thomas Piketty

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US…

— Robert Reich

We're the highest taxed in the world, we're the highest taxed country right now, and it's not even close.

— Donald Trump