Justin Trudeau Quotes

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

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on the very top so concentration of wealth doesn't get to extreme levels.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

The income tax is the fairest, the most equitable system of taxation that has yet been devised.

We demand a graduated income tax.

Very high taxes on the very rich—that was invented in the United States.

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.

I do not believe that the top rate should be lowered for individuals who are making more than $1 million a year. I don't think there's any need to eliminate the estate tax.

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.

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.

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

Tax should be the same for everybody.