"I'll pay higher taxes. I look at it this way: I can pay higher taxes and people can have jobs or I can pay lower taxes and I have my kids' teacher asking me for a loan because she's going to lose her house - which is true. Stuff like that happens, so I'm going to lose the money no matter what."
— Comedian Chris Rock — whose net worth is estimated at $70 million — telling the Associated Press that he'd be happy to pay higher taxes. During the interview, Rock said that part of his job as a father was to "reassure" his kids that the future would be fine - and he expanded that theme to politics. "The president of the United States is more or less the parent of the country," he said, responding to a question about the presidency/parenting style of George W. Bush by adding, "Some parents do wacky things."
