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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

Men make more money but have lower net worths.

We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.