Mitch Daniels Quotes

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.

We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more in taxes.

I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes.

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.

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.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

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

The superrich should pay higher taxes in order to restore the inclusive society that I grew up in.

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

I don't dislike people with a lot of money, but richer people need tax relief less than others.

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.

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

The very rich are moving away from everyone else …. We should be taxing capital gains just like ordinary income.

I have paid over $10 billion in taxes. But the government should collect even more from people like me.

I want to make sure that we have a tax code that makes sure that everyone benefits, including those in poverty and those middle-income wage earners and those that have already lived the American dream as well as making sure that everyone can receive the benefits of a robust economy and not just the select few.

If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are trivial compared to jacking up rates on the middle class.

The one percent must pay their fair share.

Large majorities of voters support taxing millionaires and protecting social security.

Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth and high incomes to ensure a more level playing field and generate the billions of dollars needed to invest in healthcare, education, and job creation.

I am part of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. By that, I mean that I am fortunate to be a wealthy American, and I say, 'It's okay to raise my taxes.'

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

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.

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