Progressive tax Quote by Thomas Piketty

“The arithmetic makes it plain that inflation is afar more devastating tax than anything that has been enacted by our legislature. The inflation tax…

— Janet Lowe

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

— Winnie Byanyima

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close…

— Bill Gates

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very…

— Theodore Roosevelt

You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control.

— Paul Ryan

“The right solution is a progressive annual tax on capital. This will make it possible to avoid an endless inegalitarian spiral while preserving competition…

— Thomas Piketty

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

You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs.

— Anthony Scaramucci

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

— Maxime Bernier

When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton…

— Rob Portman

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

— Thomas Sowell

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

— Paul Ryan