Michael J. Graetz > Quotes

“Democratic lawmakers, who favored treating income the same regardless of its source, collaborated with Republican supply-siders principally interested in lowering tax rates.”
― Michael J. Graetz, The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America

“As her biographer, the historian Jennifer Burns, observed, “for over half a century Rand has been the ultimate gateway drug to life on the right.”
― Michael J. Graetz, The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America

“Many antitax advocates and political leaders who insist Americans' liberty requires freedom from taxes want to have the government limit core values such as whom people can marry, what schools can teach, and who makes decisions concerning control over people's bodies, to name just a few. Antitax proponents often endorse bizarre and unrealistic conceptions of freedom.”
― Michael J. Graetz, The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America

“The most enduring aspect of the 1986 reform was a lower top income tax rate. The 50 percent rate President Reagan achieved in 1981 became unacceptably high to antitax Republicans. Democrats began to settle for top income tax rates around 40 percent.”
― Michael J. Graetz, The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America

“Justice Hugo Black, a former Alabama senator, told his colleagues that enforcing desegregation in the South would be as difficult as enforcing prohibition in New York City.5 This was an understatement.”
― Michael J. Graetz, The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America