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I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

— Bill Nighy

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to…

— Keith O'Brien

I am a leader in the fight against the national energy tax proposal some Congressional leaders are advocating. I call this bad idea 'cap-and-tax'…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has…

— Robert Pollin

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and…

— Jose Serrano

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property…

— Bruce Rauner

We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a…

— Robert Reich

We're going to raise the estate tax for wealthy, very wealthy people.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close…

— Bill Gates

Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take…

— John D. Rockefeller

“When it comes to decreasing inequalities of wealth for good or reducing unusually high levels of public debt, a progressive tax on capital is…

— Thomas Piketty