Brad Schneider Quotes

We demand a graduated income tax.

I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

I’m not looking for opportunity to pay more taxes. But I do support progressive tax structure. If society has been exceptionally good to you, then it’s incumbent on you to make a larger contribution to the welfare of society.

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

I support a progressive state income tax.

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

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

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

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

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

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

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

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.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

the most just and equitable tax that can be devised.

… [state] taxation should be in proportion to wealth …

There's nothing wrong with paying taxes; they should be paid in proportion to how rich you are. This idea that you're going to get better growth by cutting taxes at the top has no historical justification. And it's certainly not an argument in favor of capitalism.

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

I think the notion of tax fairness is the reasonable thing to do.

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

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

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

I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.