Estate taxes Quote by Jane Mayer

“The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It’s the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for the poor.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

“the history of the income tax, which began as a tax only on the 0.1 percent and was never designed to target the poor.”

— Jane Mayer

“Public lotteries are essentially regressive taxes imposed on the poor.”

— Eric Schlosser

“But there was no consideration that those single incomes were a result as much as a cause,”

— Rebecca Traister

Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.”

— Elie Wiesel

“energized and emboldened delegates of the Third Estate, the “99 percent”—in reality, closer to 96 percent—of the French population who paid the bulk of…

— Tom Reiss

“And to make the matter worse, rich as they were, they never were able to pay anybody anything that they owed. They continued to…

— Anthony Trollope

Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.

— Rutger Bregman

“Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose.”

— Eric Haney

“Many of those living in poverty in this country, in fact, would be considered quite wealthy by poor people in other countries.”

— Ben Carson

“The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility…

— Michelle Moran