“The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.” ShouldTaxesEqualClothesShould HaveProportionProductiveProvenGasolineEquitablePainlessSales TaxCheap Food Author:Will Rogers
“If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.” IfsPhilosophyWholePoliticalIndividualCommunityClassSupportShareEffectsCostTaxesAuthorityCompetitionPrivilegeProfitDuesAidsConsumersClassicAcquireProductivePolitical Philosophy Book:A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth
“Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.” SaidWould BeTaxesPaidRateCharmProductiveDean Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders
“The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.” LongSeemsMightRunningCitiesHalfCuttingEconomicCitizensTaxesAreasUnionsPatternsPopulationFollowingDisasterAdministrationProductiveLong RunsMayorsDetroit Author:Thomas Sowell
“If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector” IfsWould BeSocialEconomicCostTaxesIncreaseConsumersProductiveGamblingGoodsRevenueBanned Author:John Warren Kindt
“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.” IfsMeanEconomicHigherActivityLimitsTaxesPercentGainsHarderDollarsInvestmentRateInvestingIncomeSavingExtrasProductiveWealthyContrastConsumptionTaxpayersSavingsDiscouragingIncome TaxSavings And Investment Author:Robert H. Frank
“We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingGamesEconomyCuttingCenturyTaxesWasteProsperityProductiveGoods21st CenturyTax CutsScythes Author:Michael Ignatieff
“Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.” CuttingTaxesProductive Author:Paul Solman
“As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.” IdeasMatterNationsGroupsEconomicPolicyPeriodsTaxesPercentProductiveRevenueWretchedDoldrums Author:John Podhoretz