Quotes About Tax

For nearly a century, Republican-controlled Houses held the line on tax rates, a Republican coup de pointe to Democratic tax-increase parries.

There are real impacts from lowering tax rates, encouraging savings.

Almost everyone agrees that corporate tax rates need to be cut because of global competition. Companies should not be able to stash earnings overseas tax-free.

Cuts in tax rates on individual and company income nearly always produce more revenue, not less.

A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

Tax reform shouldn't add one penny to our deficit or to the tax bills of middle-class Americans.

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

We've got to have comprehensive tax reform.

Trump's corporate tax reform would restore America's position as the most hospitable investment climate in the world. For a change, businesses and their cash would come back home.

We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that kill jobs by raising the cost of payrolls need to be eliminated.

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.

Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC pass-throughs. And nearly as important as cutting business tax rates is the need to simplify the inexplicably opaque and complex system.

We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit.

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Reform supports all efforts of tax reform, getting rid of deductions or credits, or something that's misclassified, as long as you at the same time reduce rates so that it's not a hidden tax.

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues.

For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.