Ralph Nader Quotes

What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incentives for people to work, produce, and increase output. So I would support a carbon tax in replacement for a progressive income tax.

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

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.

The tax structure of the United States is fast becoming the most regressive of any Western nation.

If you raise taxes on the rich, you don't raise much money. I mean, this is one of the things that the U.S. is doing, but it's doing it for political reasons, not for financial reasons.

Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.

I would like to get the tax rate as low as possible so that businesses want to create jobs here.

Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.

If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are trivial compared to jacking up rates on the middle class.

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government.

You can raise taxes on the rich in America! We should raise taxes on the rich in America. But we can't do that in Rhode Island.

People are taxed enough.

I can tell you that a carbon tax will be a total economic disaster.

If the goal of the Trump tax cut is to make America look more like tax-cutting North Carolina and less like soak-the-rich Connecticut and Illinois, he's certainly on the right track.

I support progressive revenue sources that ease the burden on low-income and working-class individuals and families who are least able to shoulder the burden of regressive taxes and fees.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.