The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a … - Henry Hazlitt

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Henry Hazlitt

The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production. Total real wealth and income is made smaller than it would otherwise be. On net balance there is more poverty rather than less.

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