Quote by Thomas Piketty

Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take…

— John D. Rockefeller

“When it comes to decreasing inequalities of wealth for good or reducing unusually high levels of public debt, a progressive tax on capital is…

— Thomas Piketty

You've got to of course create jobs, you've got to increase the tax base, but progressive taxation those limited powers that we have, we…

— Humza Yousaf

In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

— Ludwig von Mises

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

— Maxime Bernier

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

— Winnie Byanyima

The 'progressive' tax-and-spend agenda has been put on trial. The policies not only lead to much slower growth but also benefit the rich and…

— Stephen Moore

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

— Aldous Huxley

If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it should be.

— Angela Rayner

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