"The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s."

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Source : "Economist says U.S. inequality reaching "spectacular" heights". Interview with Alain Sherter, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2014.

Thomas Piketty

#Country Quotes #Income Quotes #Taxation Quotes

“Branch Rickey made me a better man.”
“Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!”
“Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black
“One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.”
“Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
“Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.”
“I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.”
“But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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