Jon Ossoff Quotes
I don't support any increase in income tax rates.
Ossoff, Jon. "Georgia 6th Congressional District Debate." Atlanta Press Club, 6 Jun. 2017.
He turned out to be very wrong as there were a number of times in American history when there were tax rates in excess of 70 percent, and they were collected.
This is the most articulate historical statement of the modern conservative mantra regarding taxes. However, one change has taken place. The words “necessarily” and “often” tend to be left out of the more modern ideological statements. Mellon’s original statement has never really had any politicians or economists who disagreed. Politicians of all economic persuasions have generally accepted the Mellon statement but the extreme conservatives’ creed is that a lowering of taxes always produces more revenue and a tax increase will inevitably lead to greater tax revenue—a position which Mellon never took. Mellon however was very solicitous of the wealthy, felt the welfare of the nation depended on their prosperity, and was a strong advocate of what was later called ‘trickle down’ economics {628592}.
The Roosevelt Administration was committed to the principle that all Americans should bear some part of the sacrifice for the war effort, not only those doing the fighting and dying. The name was in itself a bit of propaganda in that at that point in time, American victory was by no means assured.
Thomas Jonathan Ossoff is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Ossoff was previously a documentary film producer and investigative journalist.
