Argument Quote by Mervyn King

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

— John Maynard Keynes

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

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

— Michael Madigan

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

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

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

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

— John Maynard Keynes

Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking…

— John F. Kennedy

“Aghion’s conclusion is that we have to redesign fiscal systems so they distinguish clearly between the creation of value and the enjoyment of economic…

— Jean Tirole

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

Unlike the American inventions and achievements that have expanded horizons of possibility, our nation's tax code has become an excessive burden that strangles individual…

— Kevin Brady

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

— Peter Drucker