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The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.

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...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological…
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely…
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth…
What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after…
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the…
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and…
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in…
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

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This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what… — Chris Christie
gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system. — Joe Jordan
The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money — Nicholas von Hoffman
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Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our… — Shinzo Abe
Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race. — Jimmy Carter
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The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose. — William E. Simon
Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and… — Ronald Reagan
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