Capital gains Quote by Jane Mayer

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“According to our estimates, the optimal top tax rate in the developed countries is probably above 80 percent.50 Do not be misled by the…

— Thomas Piketty

Regarding the Economy & Taxation: America's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. The top one percent income…

— Rush Limbaugh

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes…

— Ben Stein

“The latest Congressional Budget Office figures show that the top 1 percent of income earners in the United States paid 39 percent of federal…

— Mark R. Levin

I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.…

— Howard Warren Buffett

When you say the tax system benefits the rich, there are a lot of people who respond, "That can't be true, look at the…

— David Cay Johnston

Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000,…

— Barack Obama

“Right now the top 50 percent of taxpayers pay almost 96 percent of the taxes. The top income earners--the evil top 1 percent--earn about…

— Neal Boortz

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million.…

— David Plouffe

“Those cuts had lowered the top income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 35 percent. With bipartisan support, Bush had also slashed taxes on…

— Jane Mayer

For the typical Americans, most of their income comes from wages. So, for people making less than $1 million a year, about 70% of…

— Brian Deese