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My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

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.

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.