Lawrence Kudlow Quotes

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.

Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

Why don't we go all the way and simple take the rich off the tax rolls altogether?

I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue.

A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more capital. It's not surprising then, that average OECD corporate tax rates have trended steadily downward.

I think the first thing we should do is abolish the income tax.

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

Getting rid of the deductibility of state and local taxes will force the highest corporate tax states to lower their rates, or fewer corporations over time will headquarter there.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.