Employment Quote by Alan Grayson

“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