Quotes About Wealth

I've had enough of giving millionaires like Dick Cheney and myself tax breaks and giving America's kids a mountain of debt.

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work.

Some of the huge tax breaks that we gave to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population in this country during the Bush era have contributed significantly to the deficit.

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.

President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing rates on top earners is an obvious way to raise revenue from those who can afford it most.

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.

If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine - just stop acting like you're moral.

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

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.

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

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

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

There are real impacts from lowering tax rates, encouraging savings.