Quotes About Progressive Taxation

#1. Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor of progressive taxation. I think we need all of this. I think we don't have to choose one.

Thomas Piketty

#2. The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

Thomas Piketty

#3. 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

#4. 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 advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Ludwig Von Mises

#5. You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more.

Timothy Noah

#6. The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

Vilfredo Pareto

#7. I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment.

Alan Grayson

#8. Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight.

George Gritter

#10. I have to reinvent myself.

Ted Kulongoski

#11. I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in ... a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, ... increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

A.E. Samaan

#13. The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. When I fall from the tree, every future climbing move explodes apart in my mind, a deck of cards thrown in the air.

Ned Hayes

#15. For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

Adam Smith

#16. The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.

Kevin Bleyer

#17. God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#18. Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

Al Pacino

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

Thomas Piketty

#20. High taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen as a consensual device to take excess resources away from the privileged

Tony Judt

#21. I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

Dave Grohl

#22. Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast?
Example:
What was the full impact of World War II?
Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.

Joan Bauer