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The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

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.

The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.

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

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?