Benefits Quote by Ulysses S. Grant

As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and…

— John Bright

“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

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

— Michael Madigan

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land…

— Will Rogers

“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

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property…

— Bruce Rauner

The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a…

— Henry George

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

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

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not…

— Ludwig von Mises