Lawrence Kudlow‘s latest column at Real Clear Politics contrasts Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s economic policies with those of a revered former Democratic president.

Want to raise wages? Slash business taxes. Want to help business get out of recession and into recovery? Then help business.

For the life of me, I cannot understand Clinton and her proposed across-the-board tax hikes on individuals, businesses and investors. I cannot fathom her plans for increased regulatory burdens, which include more government-run healthcare and a halt to the fossil-fuel energy boom.

I don’t want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?

It may be coming, but so far Clinton has no corporate-tax reform plan. Even Barack Obama would have taken the business tax rate down to 28 percent. But Clinton has nothing.

And she has forgotten the economic lesson of the greatest Democratic politician of the last 50 years, John F. Kennedy.

JFK inherited three recessions from the Dwight D. Eisenhower years. And he wound up slashing tax rates across the board, for upper, middle and lower incomes as well as corporate investment. That’s Kennedy the Democrat.

And when Republican Ronald Reagan faced stagflation in the 1980s, he went back in time and borrowed JFK’s supply-side tax-cut program. And it worked for 20 years, throwing off 4-to-5 percent economies.

As a free-market guy, I love competition. That includes political competition. And what we need to get this economy out of its rut is a little tax-and-regulatory-cut competition between the two political parties.