Will Rogers Quotes

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.

Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

I did a little study of my office, and the average worker pays a higher tax rate than I do. If the government needs money, it should get if from me rather than my secretary of the person who will serve my lunch today.

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

Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.

Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.

I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor.

The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay.

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.

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

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.

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.

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

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.

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

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.

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. Now he's changing. All he keeps saying is millionaires and billionaires don't pay their fair share of taxes.

It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.