Currents Quote by Arthur Laffer

If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference is due…

— Arthur Laffer

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government…

— Alan Keyes

Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in…

— Arthur Laffer

There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for the states…

— Arthur Laffer

In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had…

— James Traficant

I support a progressive state income tax.

— Lori Lightfoot

Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist…

— James Traficant

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly…

— Barney Frank

“And after generations of redistributive progressive income and inheritance taxes, the economic elite was losing its lead. Income in America during the mid-1970s was…

— Jane Mayer

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

— Bill Gates

In the eyes of many business leaders, there is never an opportune moment for tax reform. Yes, the economy is losing momentum, but that…

— Michelle Bachelet