Thomas Jefferson Quotes

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

There should be a 100% income tax in incomes above the amount needed to supply all the comforts and true refinements of life.

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?

Estate taxes are the government's way of making up for all the cheating you did on income taxes

The most equitable way to substantially reduce the deficit is to delay reductions in the top tax bracket for upper-income taxpayers.

I would be open to a proposal that would have some minimum tax level for everyone.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

There are a few things that we can do. One of them is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities. So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we've had it as high as 90 percent.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.