Big Quote by Austan Goolsbee

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars…

— Austan Goolsbee

“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

Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000,…

— Barack Obama

You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.

— Abhijit Banerjee

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

— Alan Greenspan

I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a…

— Glenn Hubbard

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million.…

— David Plouffe

Now, that's not my analysis. That's the analysis of economists who have looked at this. And, and that kind of top, top-down economics, where…

— Barack Obama

All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things…

— Anthony Weiner

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

— Austan Goolsbee

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The…

— Christina Romer

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

— Milton Friedman