I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare…

“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in…

— Tony Judt

You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries.…

— Timothy Noah

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

— Winnie Byanyima

Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor…

— Thomas Piketty

Many argue that graduates earn a 'premium' because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that's why I've…

— John McDonnell

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

— Thomas Piketty

You've got to of course create jobs, you've got to increase the tax base, but progressive taxation those limited powers that we have, we…

— Humza Yousaf

Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in the hands…

— Owen Jones

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not…

— Ludwig von Mises

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

— Ludwig von Mises

The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to…

— Vilfredo Pareto

In an ideal world, of course, we would still be arguing for free education. If I was starting with a blank sheet of paper,…

— Wes Streeting

A fairer system bases itself on actual outcomes - if you earn more you pay more, through progressive income tax.

— John McDonnell

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their…

— Adam Smith