Quote by Jane Mayer

“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. ”

— John Maynard Keynes

“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

“What makes me a libertarian is that the prospect of having that reconfiguration done by the same system that managed to ban marijuana while…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Libertarianism is supposed to be all about principles, but what it's really about is political expedience. It's basically a corporate front, masked as philosophy.”

— Jane Mayer

“it is generally considered to be the best tax ever invented. It raises more revenue at less economic cost than any other tax. For…

— Bruce Bartlett

“Libertarian paternalism is a relatively weak, soft, and nonintrusive type of paternalism because choices are not blocked, fenced off, or significantly burdened.”

— Richard H. Thaler

“For while libertarians have too often been opportunists who lose sight of or under-cut their ultimate goal, some have erred in the opposite direction:…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“The founders realized that a gigantic government would require increasingly large amounts of resources from the people in the form of taxes, and that…

— Ben Carson

“The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility…

— Michelle Moran

“Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.”

— John Charles Chasteen

“Widespread distrust in a society…imposes a kind of tax on all forms of economic activity, a tax that high-trust societies do not have to…

— Stephen R. Covey

“The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.”

— John Hospers