Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and…

If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be…

— Guy Standing

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from…

— Barack Obama Sr

Congress must take some thoughtful and targeted steps towards long-term solvency in the Social Security program. One such step is to eliminate the cap…

— Mike Quigley

The biggest revenue target is the preferential rate for long-term capital gains, which raises a perennial question: Why should capital income be taxed at…

— James B. Stewart

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

President Trump repeatedly says that "America is the highest-taxed country in the world." This is an alternative fact. We pay less in taxes, and…

— T.R. Reid

Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we're going to lower the rates…

— Paul Ryan

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

— Mike Pence

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to…

— William Greider

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies…

— Thomas Sowell

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to…

— Andrew Mellon

I have a simple plan to solve the economic crisis. Give every American a $100 credit to the dog track of their choice. I…

— Willie Geist

There are two economic realities in America in 2016. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show…

— Lester Holt

On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top…

— Michael Hudson

The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has…

— John F. Kennedy