Ronald Reagan Quotes

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.

I know that we can pay for it because we are going to make the millionaires pay for it.

It seems idle to speculate in the abstract as to whether or not a progressive income tax schedule rising to rates in excess of 70 percent are justifiable …. The fact is that such rates cannot be successfully collected.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

I support a progressive state income tax.

It's time the government stopped using taxes to reward winners and losers in love.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

Hillary Clinton is raising your taxes, folks. You can look at me. She's raising your taxes really high. And what that's going to do is a disaster for the country.

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.

A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

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

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

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

Tax policy is not about compassion.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

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.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.