Quotes About Reform

We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a leap forward to a fairer and less confusing tax system.

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Revolutions about taxation have shaped our history.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

We are looking at ways to shift the balance of taxation away from work and on to the practices that are destroying the environment on which a healthy economy depends.

We need to stop illegal immigration. We need to put people back to work. We need to cut taxes.

Reforming Social Security to make it fully funded and independently held, that's compassionate because it allows people to control their own lives; cutting taxes on families and all Americans to let people have more control over their lives.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

Some taxes are really dumb.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

I have been very aggressively campaigning on Kansas needs to cut its taxes.