Laffer Curve Quotes

#1. The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.

Arthur Laffer

#2. When you look at the government, when the government collects a buck, it's not free. They have to spend resources, the IRS, audits, all this sort of crap, to collect the dollar. I'm not assuming any Laffer curve effect here at all. There are just transactions costs of collecting that money.

Arthur Laffer

#3. I used the so-called Laffer Curve all the time in my classes and with anyone else who would listen to me to illustrate the trade-off between tax rates and tax revenues.

Arthur Laffer

#4. The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me.

Arthur Laffer

#5. The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in 'The Public Interest' entitled, 'Taxes, Revenues, and the Laffer Curve.'

Arthur Laffer

#6. I try to vote as left as I can. I hope that my paintings will coincide and be far left, but frequently ... the painting rebels and goes fascist on me.

Peter Saul

#7. Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours.

Robert Anthony

#8. Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today.

Ted Andrews

#9. The M42 bus won the Golden Snail award for being the city's slowest, clocking just 3.6 mph in weekday traffic along 42 St. Even more embarrassing, the M42 lost a race against a kid's big wheel bike

Jeffrey Tanenhaus

#10. We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

Joshua Chamberlain

#11. The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

Karsten Harries

#12. Some betrayals ran too deep to ever forgive.

Mary E. Pearson

#13. It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Combining their operating business will make Volkswagen and Porsche even stronger - both financially and strategically - going forward.

Martin Winterkorn

#15. Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

Arthur Middleton

#16. Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

Brian Eno

#17. Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

Louis L'Amour

#18. What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right ... the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

Peter Drucker