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It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax.…

— T.R. Reid

“History lesson, folks: The tax system we have today—the one we've come to know and love—began ninety-four years ago as a (drum roll, please)…

— Neal Boortz

“Before Congress instituted the federal income tax in 1913, following the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, America’s tax burden fell disproportionately…

— Jane Mayer

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US…

— Robert Reich

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

The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor,…

— Paul Craig Roberts

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

— Hank Williams, Jr

When you say the tax system benefits the rich, there are a lot of people who respond, "That can't be true, look at the…

— David Cay Johnston

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

Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all the way…

— Jeb Hensarling

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

Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help…

— Eva Kaili