1.   According to this conventional wisdom, the middle class and the poor think the rich should pay a heavy share.

2.   How, say, do you get the rich to pay highly progressive income taxes without grumbling?

3.   If you believe the rich should pay more taxes, a cut in capital gains rate will encourage it.

4.   In fact, he said, more loopholes should be closed so that the rich pay even a bigger share.

5.   Not only have revenues exploded as a result of economic growth, but the rich pay more.

6.   Only the rich are paying more tax.

7.   That would replace a proposal that would have required the rich to pay a higher deductible when using doctor-visit services.

8.   The rich could always pay for it.

9.   The very rich pay almost all of the tax.

10.   Their argument is that, after all, the rich pay the most taxes and thus should get the most out of a tax cut.