Unintended consequences
Cry Wolf Quotes
[The income tax would] divide the population into two classes, the class which contributes to the support of the Government, and the class which does not contribute.
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In 1910, the Albany Evening Journal, a partisan Republican paper.
Such a tax inevitably discourages capital investment that is so important for the development of new energy resources. There is a definite psychological effect on investors who know that any success will be subject to a tax that could consume almost the entire profit.
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Walker Winter, of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Statement at the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Minimum wage laws may very well be the most anti-poor laws envisioned by modern government policymakers.
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LaFaive, Michael D., Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Youth unemployment is three times the overall unemployment rate, and for minority youth it is much, much higher. Let us not make the problem worse by enacting a minimum wage which denies young people jobs.
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Arthur Ravenel (R-SC), Congressional Record.
