Clear Quote by Burt Prelutsky

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

— Grover Norquist

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I…

— Warren Buffett

Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress would want…

— Matt Gaetz

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the…

— Calvin Coolidge

I can't micromanage what anybody pays or doesn't pay. But the concept that half of the public isn't involved with the income-tax system is…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

— Ronald Reagan

In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

— David Leonhardt

I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.

— Warren Buffett

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

— Benjamin Franklin

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate…

— Herman Cain

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

— Milton Friedman