Income tax Quote by Tony Judt

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

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

“Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that’s what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve.…

— Neal Boortz

“Progressive taxes are inherently flawed in that they fund public services which are often location-dependent, thus adding to the value of owned land. Thus,…

— Martin Adams

“the decrease in the top marginal income tax rate led to an explosion of very high incomes, which then increased the political influence of…

— Thomas Piketty

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

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

— Winnie Byanyima

“Lower taxes didn’t mean people paid less; it meant taxes weren’t raised.”

— Chris Dietzel

Arthur Laffer's idea, that lowering taxes could increase revenues, was logically correct. If tax rates are high enough, then people will go to such…

— Richard Thaler

The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to…

— Vilfredo Pareto

“The founders realized that a gigantic government would require increasingly large amounts of resources from the people in the form of taxes, and that…

— Ben Carson

It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point…

— Alexander Hamilton