Certain Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

— Paul Ryan

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

— Thomas Sowell

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies…

— Thomas Sowell

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term…

— Tom Cole

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

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government…

— Arthur Laffer

“According to our estimates, the optimal top tax rate in the developed countries is probably above 80 percent.50 Do not be misled by the…

— Thomas Piketty

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

— Mark Skousen

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

— Steve Mnuchin

Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on…

— Bruce Bartlett

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

— Calvin Coolidge

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

— Edward Kennedy