Asking Quote by Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

— Thomas Piketty

“If Americans actually understood the structure of our taxes, they would not only become angry, they might also find our economic and political systems…

— Richard D. Wolff

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

— William Vickrey

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

— Henry George

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The notion that property is the means to all other means was ruled out by the new radicals. The deep seated ressentiment towards private…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Tax systems are essentially the mechanisms by which societies decide what people have to share with each other versus what they can keep for…

— Martin Adams

A global tax body would give all countries - not just the rich and powerful - an equal say in how the global rules…

— Winnie Byanyima

Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate-the one physical thing that does not move easily and has…

— Nicholas Negroponte

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

— William E. Simon

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the…

— Ulysses S. Grant