Business Quote by Ludwig von Mises

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

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

— Ludwig von Mises

“A businessman who expects his output to be stolen, expropriated, or entirely taxed away will have little incentive to work, let alone any incentive…

— Daron Acemoğlu

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 economists exploded the old tenets: that it is unfair and unjust to outdo a competitor by producing better and cheaper goods; that it…

— Ludwig von Mises

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

— Winnie Byanyima

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce…

— William Cobbett

Taxing corporations means unnecessarily burdening our wealth-creating machines.

— Maxime Bernier

The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without…

— Ludwig von Mises

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

— Ayn Rand

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to…

— Andrew Mellon

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

— Ludwig von Mises