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JASON CHAFFETZ![]()
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simpl...
HERMAN CAIN![]()
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing ...
BEN BERNANKE The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
SCOTT DESJARLAIS If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United ...
SCOTT HODGE Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rate...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer...
KIT BOND It's important to keep in mind that these tax credits are credits against Dell tax payments that wou...
COLLEEN RYAN Strong revenue returns have increased chances of the scrapping of exchange controls, the further red...
MARTIN JANKELOWITZ The Panel's income tax reform plan would make some positive changes such as eliminating the double-t...
CHRIS EDWARDS It's really impossible to argue that this tax bill simplifies the tax system. It's because of the ac...
JOEL SLEMROD It's interesting that while we have one of the lowest income-tax rates in the area, the effective ra...
DAVE LINDIMORE![]()
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined ...
STEPHEN HARPER In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive ...
ERIC CANTOR I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F...
RALPH HALL![]()
God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own...
NIGEL LAWSON Research has shown that middle-income wage earners would benefit most from a large reduction in corp...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We believe that this tax rate, at 20 percent, is a significant increase in tax and may lead us to no...
RICHARD OWEN Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.
HEATHER BRESCH![]()
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows ...
HERMAN CAIN It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate....
DAVID MALPASS Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our po...
MARK SANFORD For the typical American, it's the best and most generous tax break in the entire tax code.
DOUGLAS DUNCAN Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in...
DAVID PLOUFFE The tax code reads that the responsibility for the tax is ultimately on the consumer.
LEE BAERLOCHER I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, ...
JOHN KASICH Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing ou...
MARK SANFORD Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordi...
ANDREW LEIGH Whether it's reducing a particular tax or reforming the entire tax code, the issue is fairness,
DICK ARMEY It's tax diversification. If tax rates go up, it would be nice to have a fund that you don't have to...
JAMES LANGE![]()
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to...
GROVER NORQUIST![]()
I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.
BOB BECKEL Person has the right not to recognize the sovereignty of the state and thus he has right to avoid th...
ILKIN SANTAK The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is t...
TIMOTHY NOAH![]()
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporat...
ALLEN WEST![]()
Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax...
RICK PERRY![]()
If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We wo...
GARY JOHNSON![]()
The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenu...
ARTHUR LAFFER![]()
A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair...
KEN BUCK We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the incom...
ERNIE FLETCHER We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair ...
, "PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST", 1992![]()
In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax incre...
ARTHUR LAFFER President Obama always gives lip service to lowering the corporate tax rate, but he never specifies ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW![]()
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spar...
MARCO RUBIO Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on...
ROGER WICKER In this country, we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE![]()
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else h...
JEFFREY R. IMMELT I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid mo...
BILL KRISTOL![]()
The current tax code is a daily mugging
RONALD REAGAN Instead of the present ad hoc adjustments to the tax rate we ... call for government to provide grea...
IAN DAVIDSON![]()
Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when...
MIKE PENCE We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.
JEFF RICH What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, e...
GLENN HUBBARD![]()
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forw...
LYSLE BRINKER I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percen...
JAMES MIRRLEES The tax cuts have a lot of momentum. For something like the estate tax or the alternative minimum ta...
MAYA MACGUINEAS Now we can talk about cutting taxes or reforming the tax code.
ALEX JOHNSON The time is right to look at things like our corporate tax rate itself, and specific areas of stimul...
TREVOR HUGHES We're setting things up for both conservatives' and liberals' worst nightmare. We're going to have a...
LEN BURMAN![]()
If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for th...
BERNIE SANDERS![]()
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Our campaign gives teeth to what small business owners have been saying for years: the tax code is f...
JACK FARIS![]()
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE![]()
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution,...
HERMAN CAIN And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporat...
STEVE FORBES We need to have tax relief for those who really need tax relief. The concept of tax cuts is fine, bu...
CHARLES CARRIER![]()
Our institutional framework needs to be bolstered further. We have to implement laws like the propos...
CHANDA KOCHHAR![]()
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
JOHN CORNYN There's a certain political unattractiveness to essentially providing tax breaks at the corporate le...
DAVID PERRY Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW If Republicans were to regain control of the Senate, the probabilities of some major tax cuts would ...
PAUL KASRIEL![]()
The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.
ARTHUR LAFFER The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.
JERRY WELLER![]()
Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland&...
ENDA KENNY![]()
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative...
MICHELE BACHMANN![]()
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the a...
THOMAS SOWELL Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulat...
JIM BRIDENSTINE![]()
We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.
RON DESANTIS There is no real, definitive relief in sight. And North Carolina?s gasoline tax may increase again J...
SARAH DAVIS![]()
If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Re...
GROVER NORQUIST To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital ga...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citi...
RICHARD NEAL It was an extremely confusing quarter. It looks like their tax rate was lower than expected, so I th...
BILL LEACH Lower the rate and that's the direct way of providing tax relief.
LOWELL KALAPA Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not h...
TIM RUSSERT![]()
We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high sp...
NIGEL LAWSON![]()
The 3 percent overall federal tax rate I would pay -- if a Berkshire dividend were to be tax free --...
WARREN BUFFETT One reason we want to collect the use tax and have been very aggressive about it is that 100 percent...
DANNY BRAZELL Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'
RUSSELL LONG![]()
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'
RUSSELL B. LONG Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'.
RUSSELL LONG Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE Higher tax rates, you get more casino, less resort. Lower tax rates, you get more resort, with a cas...
JAN JONES Americans spent 6 billion hours last year complying with the tax code.
SCOTT HODGE I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are off...
JASON CHAFFETZ As long as I've been here it has been a tax-rate town. It doesn't focus on the quality of services, ...
JEFF HATLING It's difficult to compete and keep businesses from moving to South Dakota when (that state's) proper...
CHARESE YANNEY The effort to reform the tax code is noble in its purpose but it requires political willpower,
JOHN SNOW The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE
JASON CHAFFETZ
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simpl... HERMAN CAIN
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing ... BEN BERNANKE The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
SCOTT DESJARLAIS If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United ...
SCOTT HODGE Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rate...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer...
KIT BOND It's important to keep in mind that these tax credits are credits against Dell tax payments that wou...
COLLEEN RYAN Strong revenue returns have increased chances of the scrapping of exchange controls, the further red...
MARTIN JANKELOWITZ The Panel's income tax reform plan would make some positive changes such as eliminating the double-t...
CHRIS EDWARDS It's really impossible to argue that this tax bill simplifies the tax system. It's because of the ac...
JOEL SLEMROD It's interesting that while we have one of the lowest income-tax rates in the area, the effective ra...
DAVE LINDIMORE
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined ... STEPHEN HARPER In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive ...
ERIC CANTOR I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F...
RALPH HALL
God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own... NIGEL LAWSON Research has shown that middle-income wage earners would benefit most from a large reduction in corp...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We believe that this tax rate, at 20 percent, is a significant increase in tax and may lead us to no...
RICHARD OWEN Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.
HEATHER BRESCH
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows ... HERMAN CAIN It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate....
DAVID MALPASS Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our po...
MARK SANFORD For the typical American, it's the best and most generous tax break in the entire tax code.
DOUGLAS DUNCAN Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in...
DAVID PLOUFFE The tax code reads that the responsibility for the tax is ultimately on the consumer.
LEE BAERLOCHER I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, ...
JOHN KASICH Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing ou...
MARK SANFORD Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordi...
ANDREW LEIGH Whether it's reducing a particular tax or reforming the entire tax code, the issue is fairness,
DICK ARMEY It's tax diversification. If tax rates go up, it would be nice to have a fund that you don't have to...
JAMES LANGE
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to... GROVER NORQUIST
I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code. BOB BECKEL Person has the right not to recognize the sovereignty of the state and thus he has right to avoid th...
ILKIN SANTAK The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is t...
TIMOTHY NOAH
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporat... ALLEN WEST
Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax... RICK PERRY
If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We wo... GARY JOHNSON
The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenu... ARTHUR LAFFER
A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair... KEN BUCK We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the incom...
ERNIE FLETCHER We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair ...
, "PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST", 1992
In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax incre... ARTHUR LAFFER President Obama always gives lip service to lowering the corporate tax rate, but he never specifies ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spar... MARCO RUBIO Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on...
ROGER WICKER In this country, we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else h... JEFFREY R. IMMELT I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid mo...
BILL KRISTOL
The current tax code is a daily mugging RONALD REAGAN Instead of the present ad hoc adjustments to the tax rate we ... call for government to provide grea...
IAN DAVIDSON
Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when... MIKE PENCE We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.
JEFF RICH What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, e...
GLENN HUBBARD
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forw...
LYSLE BRINKER I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percen...
JAMES MIRRLEES The tax cuts have a lot of momentum. For something like the estate tax or the alternative minimum ta...
MAYA MACGUINEAS Now we can talk about cutting taxes or reforming the tax code.
ALEX JOHNSON The time is right to look at things like our corporate tax rate itself, and specific areas of stimul...
TREVOR HUGHES We're setting things up for both conservatives' and liberals' worst nightmare. We're going to have a...
LEN BURMAN
If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for th... BERNIE SANDERS
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. ALBERT EINSTEIN Our campaign gives teeth to what small business owners have been saying for years: the tax code is f...
JACK FARIS
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in... SHELDON WHITEHOUSE
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution,... HERMAN CAIN And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporat...
STEVE FORBES We need to have tax relief for those who really need tax relief. The concept of tax cuts is fine, bu...
CHARLES CARRIER
Our institutional framework needs to be bolstered further. We have to implement laws like the propos... CHANDA KOCHHAR
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform. JOHN CORNYN There's a certain political unattractiveness to essentially providing tax breaks at the corporate le...
DAVID PERRY Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW If Republicans were to regain control of the Senate, the probabilities of some major tax cuts would ...
PAUL KASRIEL
The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative. ARTHUR LAFFER The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.
JERRY WELLER
Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland&... ENDA KENNY
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative... MICHELE BACHMANN
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the a... THOMAS SOWELL Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulat...
JIM BRIDENSTINE
We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment. RON DESANTIS There is no real, definitive relief in sight. And North Carolina?s gasoline tax may increase again J...
SARAH DAVIS
If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Re... GROVER NORQUIST To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital ga...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citi...
RICHARD NEAL It was an extremely confusing quarter. It looks like their tax rate was lower than expected, so I th...
BILL LEACH Lower the rate and that's the direct way of providing tax relief.
LOWELL KALAPA Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not h...
TIM RUSSERT
We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high sp... NIGEL LAWSON
The 3 percent overall federal tax rate I would pay -- if a Berkshire dividend were to be tax free --... WARREN BUFFETT One reason we want to collect the use tax and have been very aggressive about it is that 100 percent...
DANNY BRAZELL Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'
RUSSELL LONG
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' RUSSELL B. LONG Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'.
RUSSELL LONG Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE Higher tax rates, you get more casino, less resort. Lower tax rates, you get more resort, with a cas...
JAN JONES Americans spent 6 billion hours last year complying with the tax code.
SCOTT HODGE I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are off...
JASON CHAFFETZ As long as I've been here it has been a tax-rate town. It doesn't focus on the quality of services, ...
JEFF HATLING It's difficult to compete and keep businesses from moving to South Dakota when (that state's) proper...
CHARESE YANNEY The effort to reform the tax code is noble in its purpose but it requires political willpower,
JOHN SNOW The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE
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