Robert S. McIntyre Quotes

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

Why don't we go all the way and simple take the rich off the tax rolls altogether?

We demand a graduated income tax.

In this time of need, the people who can afford it, those making more than $1 million a year, should not pay a tax rate that is less than their secretary pays. This is not class envy. This is not class warfare. This is basic arithmetic.

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

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 personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more.

The tax program is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose ... not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome and sterile accumulations.

We need a tax code where everyone pays his fair share.

It is human nature on the part of those who pay graduated taxes to attack all taxes based on the ability to pay. These are the same complainants who for a generation blocked the imposition of a graduated income tax. They are the same complainants who would impose the type of flat sales tax which places the burden of the government more on those least able to pay and less on those most able to pay.

Those who make money off of money get a better deal in the Tax Code than those who make money from hard work.

There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.

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.

Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.

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.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

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

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

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

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

Tax should be the same for everybody.