Bases Quote by William Vickrey

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in…

— William Vickrey

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

— John F. Kennedy

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

— Peter Drucker

“Wages, profit, and rent, are the three original sources of all revenue, as well as of all exchangeable value. All other revenue is ultimately…

— Adam Smith

The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an…

— Fritz Machlup

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

— Ambrose Bierce

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

Income inequity has to be addressed.

— Joe Biden

A universal basic income funded by a value-added tax, which is a tax placed on a product whenever value is added at each stage…

— Andrew Yang

All the corporate welfare, yeah, it goes from cash payments to debt, to regulations on the competitors, to restrictions on trade, to mandates. You…

— Charles Koch