Quotes About Wealth

In the long run, lawmakers should keep in mind that tax rates are far from the only reason a rich person might consider flight: Decaying infrastructure and degrading public services are surely just as important.

Local tax increases can cause high-net-worth individuals to move, tax experts said; tax avoidance and tax arbitrage are multitrillion-dollar affairs, and rich people are sensitive to tax rates. But many of the people who move when their home state raises taxes are close to retirement anyway.

All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law.

Your tax returns on a yearly basis don't tell you what you're worth. What they show is what your income is.

In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.

If corporations and rich people who made fortunes out of us during the boom are not paying their fair share then reform the tax system and close down the tax havens.

Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.

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

When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

A global tax body would give all countries - not just the rich and powerful - an equal say in how the global rules on taxation are designed.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

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

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

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

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

I think for some, the very wealthiest among us, for corporations, taxes are too low.

I just don't want to pay taxes.