Accumulation Quote by Henry Hazlitt

The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation…

— Henry Hazlitt

The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax…

— Henry Hazlitt

Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods of production…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes.

— Gregory D Hess

“The inexorable rise of inequality can be countered at the top by higher taxes on the highest earners who have captured so much more…

— Robert J. Gordon

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

— Christina Romer

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a…

— John Stuart Mill

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

I think there's a lot to be said for changing the balance of what we tax: wealth versus work.

— Pete Buttigieg

Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.

— Rishi Sunak