Mark Zandi Quotes

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes.

We rule out raising taxes this year.

I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

If Republicans are correct that lower rates spur economic growth, then lower rates on all income - made possible in part by raising capital-gains rates - should bolster economic growth across the economy.

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.

I support a progressive state income tax.

There are a few things that we can do. One of them is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities. So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we've had it as high as 90 percent.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

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.

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

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

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.