Title: Michael Badnarik
Content: citing the two-volume work "The Law that Never Was", co-authored by William J. Benson. One of his key statements on income tax is that the United States grew to be the most powerful nation in the Universe without requiring such a tax, and that it began to falter when the government began to intervene in the economy and individuals' lives. In the past, he has stated that refusing to file a tax return is justifiable until the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides a legal reason for doing so (see Federal statutes imposing obligations to pay income taxes and file returns).

Title: Harry A. Millis
Content: Revenue" in the "Journal of Political Economy." The article made the case for taxes on professionals and businesses as a means of broadening the tax base and avoiding over-reliance on property taxes. Simeon E. Leland, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Northwestern University and chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, later said it was a landmark in the study of state tax issues and anticipated the later, better-known work by Seligman and Adams. Millis left Stanford in 1911 and in the fall of 1912 joined the economics department at the University of Kansas. Millis joined the

Title: Left-libertarianism
Content: income taxes, sales taxes, poll taxes, property taxes (on improvements) and to any tax on production, consumption or capital wealth. George was among the staunchest defenders of free markets and his book "Protection or Free Trade" was read into the United States Congressional Record. Early followers of Henry George's philosophy called themselves "single taxers" because they believed the only economically and morally legitimate, broad-based tax is on land rent. The term "Georgism" was coined later, though some modern proponents prefer the less eponymous term geoism instead, leaving the meaning of geo- (from the Greek "ge", meaning "earth") deliberately ambiguous. The

Title: Brigitte Alepin
Content: and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University (2005). At Harvard, she worked on a special project entitled "The adaptation of our tax systems to globalization." She is an outspoken critic of corporate tax evasion and fiscal inequality. She has acted as an expert advisor on tax policies to the Canadian government and various Canadian and international organizations. In 2015, Alepin was recognized as one of the 50 most influential tax experts in the world, by the magazine "International Tax Review". Alepin published her first book in 2004. Entitled "Ces riches qui ne paient pas d'impôt" ("The Wealthy Who

Title: Laffer curve
Content: cited directly by Laffer. For example, in 1924, Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon wrote: "It seems difficult for some to understand that high rates of taxation do not necessarily mean large revenue to the government, and that more revenue may often be obtained by lower rates". Exercising his understanding that "73% of nothing is nothing", he pushed for the reduction of the top income tax bracket from 73% to an eventual 24% (as well as tax breaks for lower brackets). Mellon was one of the wealthiest people in the United States, the third-highest income-tax payer in the mid-1920s, behind John

Question: Who said, "The hardest thing to understand in the world is income tax?"
Answer: Albert Einstein