Abolish Quote by Henry George Download Open image “Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.” — Henry George ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abolish Land Taxation Values
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 Copy Share Image
“How can we share the gifts of nature? By sharing the monetary value that human beings assign to nature. The fundamental thing we need… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
“Tax systems are essentially the mechanisms by which societies decide what people have to share with each other versus what they can keep for… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Progressive taxes are inherently flawed in that they fund public services which are often location-dependent, thus adding to the value of owned land. Thus,… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are… — Henry George Copy Share Image
As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value… — Henry George Copy Share Image
In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top. — Henry George Copy Share Image
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own… — Henry George Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between… — Sally Kohn Copy Share Image
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family. — John Boorman Copy Share Image
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way… — Tadatoshi Akiba Copy Share Image
We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
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