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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

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

— Dave Rubin

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Libertarianism elevated tax avoidance into a principled crusade.”

— Jane Mayer

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

“Looked at from the point of view of citizens, liberalism is a practice of politics for people who will not be bossed about or…

— Edmund Fawcett

We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

— Jello Biafra

“Incidentally, the same logic that would force one to accept the idea of the production of security by private business as economically the best…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

— Thomas Piketty

“My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to…

— Herbert Hoover