Degrees Quote by Jack Kemp

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 tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

— Martin L. Gross

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not…

— Alfred de Musset

Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.

— David Boaz

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government…

— James Surowiecki

“Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that’s what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve.…

— Neal Boortz

Capital is taxed much less than labour; subsidies going to capital, the rich, and middle-income earners greatly exceed the benefits going to the precariat…

— Guy Standing

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

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn…

— Phil Gramm

We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.

— Martha Roby

One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck - so…

— David Cay Johnston

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in…

— Bruce Babbitt