Quotes About Reform

Nothing is so defective as those laws which correct defects.

Only the richest smidgen of the population had to file a return, and even for them the top tax rate was just 7%.

The income tax burden, he says, should fall more heavily on those who make their money on financial dealing; he says the U.S. system, in which the tax on capital gains is much lower than the tax on wages and salaries, is simply upside-down and thus counterproductive for dealing with the growth of inequality.

It's classic: Congress decides to reduce the complexity of our tax code by making it even more complex.

What had been the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 became the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which it still is today.

Most of them ran counter to the ethos of BBLR. Virtually all of them made the tax code more complicated—including that bizarre "anti-complexity clause," Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX). Three decades after the passage of the 1986 reforms, the U.S. tax code is a mockery of the BBLR principle.

The shortcomings of our system can be grouped into three basic problems: coverage, quality, and cost.

IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, a voluminous and hugely complex new law, which included the laughable "anti-complexity clause"—that is, Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX).

the number one most serious problem facing American taxpayers. That problem is the complexity of the tax code.

Good women don't reform bad men, they only irritate them.

Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

Something has to be done about the way in which this world is set up.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

To look at waves and understand that when they break they start to re-form.

Racist police, no matter what their rank, have to be weeded from every department and not allowed to work in law enforcement again anywhere.

One of our ambitions as independents is to alter our political culture. We want to leave behind the bullying, intimidation and tribalism.

We remain fully committed to introducing a cap on social care costs.

Should we think about separating the investment banks from the commercial banks, a new Glass-Steagall? I would be really excited to see that. I think it would be great for the economy.

We need a massive investment in infrastructure in this country.

We need the banks to be attractive to investors again.

I think 2tor has a chance of remaking higher ed in a really great way. If we do that, those investors will do well.

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.