Progressive Tax Quotes

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

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

The one percent must pay their fair share.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

A heavy progressive or graduated income 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.

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

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.

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.

The more money you make, the less you have to pay for things.

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

The progressive feature of the income tax is the most dangerous element of democracy.

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

I want to have a tax on people who are making a million dollars. It's called the Buffett rule. Yes, Warren Buffett is the one who's gone out and said somebody like him should not be paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. I want to have a surcharge on incomes above $5 million.

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

No sane person enjoys paying tax... money, after all, is a very nice thing to have. But it's the price we all pay for so many vital things in this country - and those of us lucky enough to have a bit more should be proud to be paying a little bit more as well.

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

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 believe in the broadening of the base of taxation founded upon the ownership of wealth and the capacity to pay.

A heavy progressive tax upon a very large fortune is in no way such a tax upon thrift or industry as a like would be on a small fortune.

If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it should be.