In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
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