Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Our tax system rewards wealth more than it does work.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

When a liberal says they are going to soak the rich, the middle class will get drenched.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the budget deficit, but about tearing down the rich.

I don't believe in a redistribution of wealth.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

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.

I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

Tax the profiteers.

In our rush to soak the rich make sure we don't drown the middle class.

... a tax break for the wealthy paid for by the middle class.

While lawmakers should eschew soaking the rich, that is no excuse for soaking the poor.

We demand a graduated income tax.