Bernie Sanders Quotes

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.

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

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

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 voters are angry about taxes, not because they think their taxes are too high, but because the wealthy and corporations do not pay their fair share.

We demand a graduated income tax.

The Republican party should be beaten, and badly beaten, if we took the attitude of saying that corporations should not, when they receive great benefits and make a great deal of money, pay their share of the public burden [pay taxes].

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

The wealthiest can afford to pay more in taxes. That's a part of the deal. That makes sense. I don't know anyone that doesn't agree with that.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

The one percent must pay their fair share.

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.

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

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.

I think it's time that the wealthy and corporations paid their fair share to support this country.

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.

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.

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

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

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

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

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

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