Quotes on Progressive Taxation

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away