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DICK ARMEY![]()
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut h...
PAUL RYAN![]()
As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan w...
RAND PAUL![]()
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and f...
RICK PERRY These tax-cut proposals are especially encouraging. Cutting taxes on workers and businesses creates ...
DANIEL WALSH The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax eva...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU![]()
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution,...
HERMAN CAIN They're not interested in cutting taxes; everybody knows that, ... When they were in charge, they ne...
TOM DELAY![]()
We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pa...
CHARLES B. RANGEL You won't have to pay property taxes on your car, which is a regressive tax. Let's work on reforming...
FRANK SZEPS![]()
Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax syst...
JOE WALSH![]()
We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing, ... We do not have the capability of having both produc...
ALAN GREENSPAN Hopefully I will be able to maintain or at least level their taxes and look at a way that we can red...
BARBARA PEREZ![]()
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing ...
BEN BERNANKE![]()
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spar...
MARCO RUBIO This country has a very long memory. The question of reforming the labor code is now on ice for year...
ELIE COHEN![]()
The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not onl...
BARNEY FRANK![]()
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to...
GROVER NORQUIST When you talk about cutting prescription costs, many people think automatically about buying drugs f...
MARIA BAIN![]()
We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individual...
BRUCE RAUNER![]()
The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.
ROB PORTMAN It's really impossible to argue that this tax bill simplifies the tax system. It's because of the ac...
JOEL SLEMROD Our feelings politically about war have stayed the same. We have a general code, we don't really tal...
ERIK PALLADINO![]()
We probably should have almost maniacally focused on cutting taxes, reforming government, working on...
NEWT GINGRICH![]()
An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code ...
STEVEN PINKER![]()
I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the gove...
JEB BUSH![]()
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simpl...
HERMAN CAIN The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer...
KIT BOND Investors express concern about taxes and the tax implications of investing but are confused by a su...
DUNCAN RICHARDSON The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.
JERRY WELLER The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.
SAINT PETER OF ALCANTARA I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid mo...
BILL KRISTOL North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like ...
DAVID ROUZER Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordi...
ANDREW LEIGH There is no statewide tax revolt. Just cutting taxes ain't going to cut it. If you are in a competit...
JEFF CROSBY It's helped greatly. Now we can talk about things. Before we just we didn't go there. We didn't talk...
DAVID GORE The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who den...
RICHARD NEAL Every one of the best tax systems raises sufficient revenue without imposing at least one of the thr...
CURTIS DUBAY The government should also be constantly reviewing and reforming the tax system to improve Australia...
TREVOR HUGHES Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.
HEATHER BRESCH The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counte...
STEVEN RATTNER If they wanted to broaden it, then give a tax refund or lower the state taxes.
JACK MCKAY![]()
It's a tax-cutting measure and we should have made that clearer.
VINCE CABLE The tax code reads that the responsibility for the tax is ultimately on the consumer.
LEE BAERLOCHER![]()
The current tax code is a daily mugging
RONALD REAGAN The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting prog...
JOEL FRIEDMAN The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting prog...
JOEL FRIEDMAN Taxes grow without rain
JEWISH PROVERB![]()
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any for...
BARACK OBAMA![]()
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.
GORDON BETHUNE People talk about Magic Johnson when he was playing. Every day, they bring an energy.
NORV TURNER![]()
Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens ...
GROVER NORQUIST![]()
We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we i...
M.L. STEDMAN![]()
I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.
BOB BECKEL It was like, okay, he's back. Now we can concentrate on other things. We can talk about who we're go...
AHMAN GREEN For the typical American, it's the best and most generous tax break in the entire tax code.
DOUGLAS DUNCAN![]()
We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
ERIK PAULSEN![]()
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. ...
ANN COULTER Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, prope...
LUIS GUTIERREZ It's always pleasing to hear we have a low tax burden. The governor is very conscious of the tax bur...
HAL HARPER![]()
In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax cod...
BARACK OBAMA Our campaign gives teeth to what small business owners have been saying for years: the tax code is f...
JACK FARIS![]()
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN![]()
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, R...
RICHARD NEAL What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let...
BARRY DILLER We don't talk about it. Our goal is we talk about one game at a time. We take each step as we go. Ou...
COACH SCOTT ZANE This car sparks some great conversations. It's like a magnet and a great tool for witnessing. ... Af...
KEVIN KENNEDY![]()
There's clearly a Democratic dilemma, ... But while other Democrats are debating how to change the B...
JOE LIEBERMAN We will wait until taxes are actually implemented, that revenue is being collected. We will look at ...
JAMES MCCORMACK Repealing the individual AMT will cost $1.2 trillion. Either that has to come from higher taxes or r...
ELIZABETH GARRETT Taxes are usually permanent, but tax cuts aren't.
PEGGY VENABLE![]()
A Dutchman was explaining the red, white, and blue Netherlands flag to an American. "Our flag is sy...
UNKNOWN![]()
Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and de...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER![]()
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows ...
HERMAN CAIN There are two things that can hurt an economy, one is a deficit and the other is higher taxes, so it...
TIM KANE![]()
Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax c...
MALCOLM TURNBULL This year we're debating about what taxes we're going to cut, not whether we're going to have any ta...
JOE NEGRON We don't talk about the struggles of the offense or the quarterback problems and all those things. W...
DONNIE HENDERSON![]()
You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending t...
BEN QUAYLE Americans spent 6 billion hours last year complying with the tax code.
SCOTT HODGE![]()
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. ...
ANN COULTER![]()
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
LINUS TORVALDS![]()
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.
WILLIAM PROXMIRE I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F...
RALPH HALL We haven't raised the operation and maintenance tax rate much over the years. And sales taxes basica...
DAVID HOPKINS We're not looking at tomorrow. Now that we've won, we can talk about tomorrow. We have to win them a...
DINO EBEL The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is t...
TIMOTHY NOAH![]()
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer
WILLIAM PROXMIRE [Of course the Hogs will miss Jones, the all-time rushing SEC quarterback, but Baker likes what he s...
CHRIS BAKER![]()
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until w...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON![]()
I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enoug...
WILL ROGERS I guess he got religion on slowing down growth and cutting the tax rate.
PHIL ANDREWS![]()
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work...
ZACH WAMP You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
CARLY FIORINA![]()
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdate...
BARACK OBAMA The tax breaks are significant. The government is subsidizing your mortgage and property taxes.
DAVID BLOCK Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
JOHN MCWHORTER Right now we’re under contract from our supplier so we’re not so much worried about the price as...
SAM WRIGHT When one has money like this, you want to invest it the best way possible, where you can maximize th...
JACK MINTZ
DICK ARMEY
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut h... PAUL RYAN
As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan w... RAND PAUL
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and f... RICK PERRY These tax-cut proposals are especially encouraging. Cutting taxes on workers and businesses creates ...
DANIEL WALSH The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax eva...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution,... HERMAN CAIN They're not interested in cutting taxes; everybody knows that, ... When they were in charge, they ne...
TOM DELAY
We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pa... CHARLES B. RANGEL You won't have to pay property taxes on your car, which is a regressive tax. Let's work on reforming...
FRANK SZEPS
Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax syst... JOE WALSH
We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing, ... We do not have the capability of having both produc... ALAN GREENSPAN Hopefully I will be able to maintain or at least level their taxes and look at a way that we can red...
BARBARA PEREZ
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing ... BEN BERNANKE
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spar... MARCO RUBIO This country has a very long memory. The question of reforming the labor code is now on ice for year...
ELIE COHEN
The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not onl... BARNEY FRANK
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to... GROVER NORQUIST When you talk about cutting prescription costs, many people think automatically about buying drugs f...
MARIA BAIN
We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individual... BRUCE RAUNER
The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. ROB PORTMAN It's really impossible to argue that this tax bill simplifies the tax system. It's because of the ac...
JOEL SLEMROD Our feelings politically about war have stayed the same. We have a general code, we don't really tal...
ERIK PALLADINO
We probably should have almost maniacally focused on cutting taxes, reforming government, working on... NEWT GINGRICH
An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code ... STEVEN PINKER
I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the gove... JEB BUSH
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simpl... HERMAN CAIN The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer...
KIT BOND Investors express concern about taxes and the tax implications of investing but are confused by a su...
DUNCAN RICHARDSON The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.
JERRY WELLER The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.
SAINT PETER OF ALCANTARA I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid mo...
BILL KRISTOL North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like ...
DAVID ROUZER Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordi...
ANDREW LEIGH There is no statewide tax revolt. Just cutting taxes ain't going to cut it. If you are in a competit...
JEFF CROSBY It's helped greatly. Now we can talk about things. Before we just we didn't go there. We didn't talk...
DAVID GORE The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who den...
RICHARD NEAL Every one of the best tax systems raises sufficient revenue without imposing at least one of the thr...
CURTIS DUBAY The government should also be constantly reviewing and reforming the tax system to improve Australia...
TREVOR HUGHES Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.
HEATHER BRESCH The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counte...
STEVEN RATTNER If they wanted to broaden it, then give a tax refund or lower the state taxes.
JACK MCKAY
It's a tax-cutting measure and we should have made that clearer. VINCE CABLE The tax code reads that the responsibility for the tax is ultimately on the consumer.
LEE BAERLOCHER
The current tax code is a daily mugging RONALD REAGAN The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting prog...
JOEL FRIEDMAN The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting prog...
JOEL FRIEDMAN Taxes grow without rain
JEWISH PROVERB
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any for... BARACK OBAMA
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers. GORDON BETHUNE People talk about Magic Johnson when he was playing. Every day, they bring an energy.
NORV TURNER
Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens ... GROVER NORQUIST
We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we i... M.L. STEDMAN
I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code. BOB BECKEL It was like, okay, he's back. Now we can concentrate on other things. We can talk about who we're go...
AHMAN GREEN For the typical American, it's the best and most generous tax break in the entire tax code.
DOUGLAS DUNCAN
We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work. ERIK PAULSEN
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. ... ANN COULTER Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, prope...
LUIS GUTIERREZ It's always pleasing to hear we have a low tax burden. The governor is very conscious of the tax bur...
HAL HARPER
In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax cod... BARACK OBAMA Our campaign gives teeth to what small business owners have been saying for years: the tax code is f...
JACK FARIS
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin... FRED ALLEN
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin... FRED ALLEN But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, R...
RICHARD NEAL What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let...
BARRY DILLER We don't talk about it. Our goal is we talk about one game at a time. We take each step as we go. Ou...
COACH SCOTT ZANE This car sparks some great conversations. It's like a magnet and a great tool for witnessing. ... Af...
KEVIN KENNEDY
There's clearly a Democratic dilemma, ... But while other Democrats are debating how to change the B... JOE LIEBERMAN We will wait until taxes are actually implemented, that revenue is being collected. We will look at ...
JAMES MCCORMACK Repealing the individual AMT will cost $1.2 trillion. Either that has to come from higher taxes or r...
ELIZABETH GARRETT Taxes are usually permanent, but tax cuts aren't.
PEGGY VENABLE
A Dutchman was explaining the red, white, and blue Netherlands flag to an American. "Our flag is sy... UNKNOWN
Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and de... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows ... HERMAN CAIN There are two things that can hurt an economy, one is a deficit and the other is higher taxes, so it...
TIM KANE
Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax c... MALCOLM TURNBULL This year we're debating about what taxes we're going to cut, not whether we're going to have any ta...
JOE NEGRON We don't talk about the struggles of the offense or the quarterback problems and all those things. W...
DONNIE HENDERSON
You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending t... BEN QUAYLE Americans spent 6 billion hours last year complying with the tax code.
SCOTT HODGE
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. ... ANN COULTER
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. LINUS TORVALDS
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer. WILLIAM PROXMIRE I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F...
RALPH HALL We haven't raised the operation and maintenance tax rate much over the years. And sales taxes basica...
DAVID HOPKINS We're not looking at tomorrow. Now that we've won, we can talk about tomorrow. We have to win them a...
DINO EBEL The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is t...
TIMOTHY NOAH
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer WILLIAM PROXMIRE [Of course the Hogs will miss Jones, the all-time rushing SEC quarterback, but Baker likes what he s...
CHRIS BAKER
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until w... WILLIAM J. CLINTON
I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enoug... WILL ROGERS I guess he got religion on slowing down growth and cutting the tax rate.
PHIL ANDREWS
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work... ZACH WAMP You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
CARLY FIORINA
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdate... BARACK OBAMA The tax breaks are significant. The government is subsidizing your mortgage and property taxes.
DAVID BLOCK Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
JOHN MCWHORTER Right now we’re under contract from our supplier so we’re not so much worried about the price as...
SAM WRIGHT When one has money like this, you want to invest it the best way possible, where you can maximize th...
JACK MINTZ
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