Best quotes by Thomas Piketty on Wealth
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‟ My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
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‟ We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.
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‟ 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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‟ Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.
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‟ Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
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‟ One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on the very top so concentration of wealth doesn't get to extreme levels.
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