Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Class

  Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.32, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hurt, People, Experts

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

• What is a loophole? If the law does not punish a definite action or does not tax a definite thing, this is not a loophole. It is simply the law.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Law, Doe, Action

• It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.898, Lulu Press, Inc

• Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Income, Progressive

• Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we have to realize that they more and more have approached the goal set by Marx. Estate taxes of the height they have already attained for the upper brackets are no longer to be qualified as taxes. They are measures of expropriation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Past, Goal, Suggestions

• In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Military, Loss, Sacrifice

• Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Progressive Taxation, Names

• If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Would Be, Branches

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

• Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are extraordinarily popular with the masses, who do not have to pay them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Income, Demand, Pay

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.452, VM eBooks

• Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Self, Height, Certain

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