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Next Page »Thomas Piketty: Tax Net Worth
on Saturday, September 18, 2021Thomas Piketty Money Quote saying Property tax could be used to progressively tax net worth in the U.S. Thomas Piketty said:
“The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world” — Thomas Piketty
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Lucretia Mott: Woman Property Tax
on Monday, July 19, 2021Lucretia Mott Money Quote saying women had payed taxes used to fund universities they could not attend at the time. Lucretia Mott said:
“Women’s property has been taxed, equally with that of men’s, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning” — Lucretia Mott
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Roger Babson: Purchasing Power
on Thursday, January 14, 2021Roger Babson Money Quote saying money may lose value but human qualities that matter most will always have value. Roger Babson said:
“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions” — Roger Babson
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Lawrence Lessig: Anarchy Freedom
on Monday, June 3, 2019Lawrence Lessig Money Quote saying that we must own our creative rights and the things we create should be compensated for freedom to exist. Lawrence Lessig said:
“A culture without property, or in which creators can’t get paid, is anarchy, not freedom” — Lawrence Lessig
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Thomas Jefferson: Unemployed Uncultivated
on Wednesday, August 22, 2018Thomas Jefferson Money Quote saying productive land and unproductive poor people should never exist in the same country. Thomas Jefferson said:
“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right” — Thomas Jefferson
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Equality of Property
on Friday, July 6, 2018Alexis de Tocqueville Money Quote saying U.S. citizens are strong believers in money over fairness. Sharing property equally is held in disdain. Alexis de Tocqueville said:
“I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men’s hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property” — Alexis de Tocqueville
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Born to Be Rich
on Saturday, November 4, 2017Ralph Waldo Emerson Money Quote saying we are all born with the ability to create wealth by using our minds to alter or mold nature with our faculties. Ralph Waldo Emerson said:
“Man was born to be rich, or, inevitably grows rich by the use of his faculties; by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Karl Marx: Buy & Possess Omnipotence
on Monday, September 11, 2017Karl Marx Money Quote saying having property and money bestows universal power upon its owner because it allows them to have whatever they are able to buy. Karl Marx said:
“By possessing the property of buying everything, by possessing the property of appropriating all objects, money is thus the object of eminent possession. The universality of its property is the omnipotence of its being. It is therefore regarded as an omnipotent being” — Karl Marx
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