Abolish Quote by James Traficant

Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist…

— James Traficant

Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because…

— Ludwig von Mises

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

— Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the…

— Ludwig von Mises

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

— Karl Marx

I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to…

— T. Coleman Andrews

“high taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen as a…

— Tony Judt

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

— Bill Gates

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not…

— Ludwig von Mises

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into…

— Robert W. Welch, Jr

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“it was Marx who declared that the whole idea of Communism could be summed up in a single formula—the abolition of private property; that…

— Leszek Kołakowski