Balance Quote by Pete Buttigieg

We are looking at ways to shift the balance of taxation away from work and on to the practices that are destroying the environment…

— Clive Lewis

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

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to…

— Anonymous

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle…

— Thomas Piketty

“Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that’s what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve.…

— Neal Boortz

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

— Jill Lepore

We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

— Henry Hazlitt

Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government.…

— John Caudwell

More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

— Dick Durbin

We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them…

— Justin Trudeau

We need a wealth tax that on a one-time basis is going to take back at least some small fraction of the great windfall…

— David Stockman

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating…

— Mark Cuban