Arthur Laffer Quotes

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• 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 Coast…
• With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's…
• 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 worry…
• I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop…
• Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's…
• People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.
• 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…
• You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.
• It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
• Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
• The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.
• When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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, as…
• The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of…
• Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country?…

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