Capital gains Quote by Richard Thaler

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support…

— Amity Shlaes

The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other…

— Michael Bloomberg

“So we call it “the estate tax,” which sounds very adult and respectable and vaguely French Revolution. Nobody really thinks of themselves has owning…

— Andrew Heaton

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.

— Gary Cohn

I do not believe that the top rate should be lowered for individuals who are making more than $1 million a year. I don't…

— Susan Collins

I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

— Stanley Druckenmiller

“When you get rid of the estate tax,” he said, “you’re basically handing over command of the country’s resources to people who didn’t earn…

— Barack Obama

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

— Bill Gates

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition…

— John C. Calhoun

It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war,…

— Walter E. Williams

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the…

— Craig Benson

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government…

— Alan Keyes