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If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

We ought to be incentivizing people to save more of their own money for use taking care of their healthcare expenses, and what we have done is we have set it up where health savings accounts are harder and harder to use for narrower and narrower purposes.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

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