Tax System Quotes

#1. America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#3. I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.

David Cameron

#4. We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

Marco Rubio

#5. Our current tax system is broken.

Dick Armey

#6. We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

Warren Buffett

#7. Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

Ludwig Von Mises

#8. If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

Geoff Capes

#9. The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.

Edward C. Prescott

#10. The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.

Thomas Piketty

#11. Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

Dave Barry

#12. Gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system.

Joe Jordan

#13. I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

Ari Fleischer

#14. Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Barack Obama

#15. Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

Alan K. Simpson

#16. Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.

Warren Beatty

#17. So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.

Todd Tiahrt

#18. Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

Angela Merkel

#19. Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.

Gary Johnson

#20. The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

William E. Simon

#21. Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

Jimmy Carter

#22. The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax laws are created by: Satan. But he works through the Congress, so that's where we must focus our efforts.

Dave Barry

#23. I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

Allen West

#24. To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Mike Huckabee

#25. As a citizen, you have an obligation to the countrys tax system, but you also have an obligation to yourself to know your rights under the law and possible tax deductions
and to claim every one of them.

Donald Alexander

#26. Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive ... [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

Ronald Reagan

#27. We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

Brad Schneider

#28. The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

Frederick W. Smith

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

Adam Davidson

#30. I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

Ben Carson

#31. We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.

Jamshyd Godrej

#32. Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing.

Eva Kaili

#33. If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

Bob Taft

#34. I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.

Rick Perry

#35. One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.

Donald T. Regan

#36. Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.

Mark Warner

#37. Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

George Osborne

#38. A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

Eric Maskin

#39. People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

Richard Neal

#40. We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

Manmohan Singh

#41. A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well.

Adam Davidson

#42. Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes.

Joe Walsh

#43. If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

Leon Panetta

#44. The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

Edward Kennedy

#45. [High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage ... the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[ ... ]Our present tax system ... reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.

John F. Kennedy

#46. I can't micromanage what anybody pays or doesn't pay. But the concept that half of the public isn't involved with the income-tax system is somewhat odd and I'm not saying how much people should do, but we should all be part of the system.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#47. Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.

John F. Kennedy

#48. In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.

Michael Parenti

#49. Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.

Benjamin Carson

#50. We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act. But the response of many people in Washington was to blame it on capitalism.

David Boaz

#51. I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

Vince Cable

#52. When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.

Nick Hanauer

#53. I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

Daniel J. Evans

#54. The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people that are there. So the system does need to be revamped [to tax the rich less and the middle class more.]

Orrin Hatch

#55. Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.

Robert Kuttner

#56. Anyone who has ever dealt with the tax authorities, the educational system or any other complex bureaucracy knows that the truth hardly matters. What's written on your form is far more important.

Yuval Noah Harari

#57. We should seriously rethink a tax code that makes it less and less possible for one parent to stay home with the kids and replace it with a family-friendly system of tax collection.

Mike Pence

#58. You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.

Nigel Lawson

#59. The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

Anthony Foxx

#60. It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform.

David Malpass

#61. Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

Ludwig Von Mises

#62. more tax breaks for the very rich is only one symptom of an economic and political system that is grotesquely failing the average American.

Bernie Sanders

#63. I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good,

Newt Gingrich

#64. Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.

Charles Rangel

#65. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Isabel Paterson

#66. Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#67. The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

Ray LaHood

#68. The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Ludwig Von Mises

#69. It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#70. When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He
survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare
system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just
had to pay the inheritance tax.

Emo Philips

#71. The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.

Joe Biden

#72. President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He's concerned there are too many loopholes and too many people manipulating the system to avoid paying taxes. And that's just in his administration.

Jay Leno

#73. Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses ... in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.

Ralph Nader

#74. I don't want to tax my mind to find perfect Iron Man line.

~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#75. If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

Otis Moss III

#76. This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Joe Biden