Stephen Moore Quotes

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 Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

When a liberal says they are going to soak the rich, the middle class will get drenched.

In our rush to soak the rich make sure we don't drown the middle class.

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

While lawmakers should eschew soaking the rich, that is no excuse for soaking the poor.

If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are trivial compared to jacking up rates on the middle class.

When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

Redistribution of wealth has rarely been from the rich to the poor. Usually it is from the poor and middle class to the rich.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

Why don't we go all the way and simple take the rich off the tax rolls altogether?

Since the Reagan era, Republicans have prescribed cuts for rich people and corporations as a cure-all. But every time they put their theory into practice, the rich just get richer, and everyone else gets left behind.

We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them on the wealthiest one per cent.

Trickle-down economics does not work, and tax reform should not be defined as partisan tax cuts for the wealthy and huge corporations.

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.

The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.