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“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 and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.”

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Author:Rob Portman

“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains.”

Way Strong Hours Economy Path Standards Gains Productivity Improving Wages Stagnant Get Ahead

Author:Jared Bernstein

“We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Gains Labor Tyranny Liberalism Trading

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.”

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Author:Wright Patman

“In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract of partnership, as is already being tried in various ways to the no small gain both of the wage-earners and of the employers. In this way wage-earners are made sharers in some sort in the ownership, or the management, or the profits.”

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Author:Pope Pius XI

“The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.”

Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

“We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.”

“It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from the tedium and fatigue of purely mechanical toil, for by this means he gains leisure for the thought necessary to working out his designs, and for the finer touches that the hand alone can give. So long as he remains master of his machinery it will serve him well, and his power of artistic expression will be freed rather than stifled by turning over to it work it is meant to do.”

“There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.”

Certain Wealth Economy Gains Arise

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.”

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Author:Grover Norquist

“I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.”

People Kind Young Black Economy Produce Materials Drug Gains Alternatives Black People

Author:Angela Davis

“Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school.”

People Needs Stills Helping Government School Young Company Economy Students Succeed Skills Summer Training Gains Advantage Program Committed Employers Global Economy

Author:Brad Duguid

“The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.”

People Individual Interest Economy Succeed Gains Advantage Market Economy

Author:Amartya Sen