Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“When it comes to decreasing inequalities of wealth for good or reducing unusually high levels of public debt, a progressive tax on… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Progressive taxes are inherently flawed in that they fund public services which are often location-dependent, thus adding to the value of owned… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive… — Vilfredo Pareto 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
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
Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“Just as the drivers in Gatsby and Bonfire responsible for crashes left others to bear the blame, so the One Percent seeks… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“The ideas in each—from profit-sharing with employees to new approaches to job training, from reform of the financial system to promote long-term… — E.J. Dionne Jr Copy Share Image
You've got to of course create jobs, you've got to increase the tax base, but progressive taxation those limited powers that we… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
“From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were all becoming less unequal. Thanks to progressive… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Many ordinary Americans believe that “large differences in income are necessary for America’s prosperity,” as one standard survey question puts it.18 However,… — Larry M. Bartels Copy Share Image
Many argue that graduates earn a 'premium' because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that's… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe in a progressive tax structure that fairly distributes the costs of government in a way that those of us fortunate… — Brad Schneider 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
A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
