Quotes About Equality

To me, greatness does not mean mortgaging the future of our middle class by giving tax cuts to our wealthiest citizens.

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

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

We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.

I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.

Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.

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.

I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.

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.

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.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

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

Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor of progressive taxation. I think we need all of this. I think we don't have to choose one.

If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

I'll happily pay more taxes if we all have equal human rights.

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

The citizens of Puerto Rico pay taxes with no representation every day, because Puerto Rico is not a state. And the rules only became more confusing the more I looked into them during my time there.

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

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.

We need a world where people do not have to live in fear of the economic repercussions of getting sick or losing their home or job. Where every child gets to fulfil their potential. Where corporations pay their fair share of taxes and work for the good of the majority, not just their shareholders.

We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them on the wealthiest one per cent.