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County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Business County Duties Government Greatly Keeping Making Offices Others Paid Performance Private Reducing Salaries Similar Some

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Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

~Arthur Hertzberg

Topics: Against Bank Being Call Civil Civil War Disobey Fight Fundamentalism Government Guns Jewish Jews Jihad Kinds Off Orders Several Teaching War West West Bank

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Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Also Balance Because Benefits Budget Create Cuts Economy Employment Expenditures Government Help Higher Incentive Incomes Increase Lower Means Other Output Production Programs Reduced Reducing Resulting Social Social Welfare Tax Tax Cuts Unemployment Welfare

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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 a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Bad Bail Christmas Colleague Does Else Fairy Far Father Former Free Free Lunch Government Government Spending Lunch Mine Never Out Public Putting Say Saying Someone Spending Staff Tooth Treasury Trouble Used Without Work Year You

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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 trade. It just can't be done.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Done Economy Free Free Trade Government Just Money Much Over Printing Prosperous Raising Rates Restricting Tax Tax Rates Too Too Much Too Much Money Trade Way You

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Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In other words, the tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: All Things Alleviate Cause Create Cure Despair Economic Economic Growth Government Growth In Other Words Increases Intended More Other Pie Poverty Problems Rate Reduce Shrink Sometimes Spending Tax Tax Rate Things Trying Unemployment Very Which Words

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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 about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: About Agree Banks Capital Clear Everyone Function Government Mean Own Should Stress Tests Worry

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People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Change Changes Composition Government Income Location People Policies Response Volume

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People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Also Change Earn Government Income People Policies Receive Response Timing

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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 of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Alone Government Government Spending Heard Himself Look Never Person Poor Prosperity Spending Taxation Taxing You

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