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Colin Anderson | Photographer's Choice | Getty Images Raising taxes on the wealthy along with entitlement reform and spending cuts need to be part of any solution to the country's

fiscal problems, Jeff Gural, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Chairman, told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Monday. "Wealthy Americans have done very well in the last dozen

years with the tax policies of the Bush administration," the head of the commercial real estate firm said. "It's clear we have huge deficits. It's time for compromise and

for us on the wealthy side to pay higher taxes in exchange for lower cuts in government spending." Gural said that the biggest problem Washington has in getting to a deal on taxes is

Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform. (_Read More:_ House Republicans Have a Mandate on Taxes: Norquist.) "Republicans seem dead set against raising taxes on

wealthy people and that's just ridiculous," he said.