Lindsey Graham Quotes

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

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

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.

I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

The rich aren't like us—they pay less taxes.

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.

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

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

Multimillionaires cannot pay lower rates than their secretaries and other people working for them.

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.

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.

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.

The tax structure of the United States is fast becoming the most regressive of any Western nation.

We have two tax systems in America—separate and unequal.

Tax fairness is very difficult to achieve. Each individual says, ‘Tax codes which make others pay more is fair to me. If I have to pay more, the code is unfair’.

By an equal obligation … every citizen with the same means would pay the same contributions [taxes]; the common man would not be more heavily imposed upon.

Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it's paid for by everyone.

The appreciation of capital assets is already taxed at an extremely favorable rate compared to labor. That's why the rich pay such a low effective tax rate no matter what their marginal tax bracket.

To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.

A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.