Tax System Quotes:

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

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.89, Ballantine Books

topic: People, Taxes, Tax System, Federal Taxes

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Believe, Taxes, Tax System

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

- Hugo Black

topic: United States, Taxation, Confession, Income Tax, Tax Day

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

topic: Money, Mean, Cutting, Tax Breaks, Tax System

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Average, Taxpayers, Taxes, Tax System

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

topic: People, Community, Blame, Tax System, Mae

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

topic: Rights, Law, Citizens, Deductions, Tax System

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

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Pay, Way, Taxes, Tax System

There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country agrees to. That's not in the cards in the near term. But the countries that are doing the best job, like Sweden, are already doing both of these. I think that eventually we'll use both of them but we need to get started right away and the cap-and-trade is a proven and effective tool.

- Al Gore

source: ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

topic: Country, Jobs, Thinking, Tax System

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

source: Source: www.sbs.com.au

topic: Growth, Firsts, Helping, Tax System

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

topic: Self, Height, Certain, Tax System

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

topic: Government, People, Entrepreneur, Tax System

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

topic: Jobs, Bridges, Broken, Outdated, Tax System

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

- George McGovern

topic: Hard Work, Land, Lines, Honest Work, Assembly Line

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

topic: Unjust, Impossible, Injustice, Federal Taxes, Counterproductive

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

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Race, Income, Taxes, Tax System

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

topic: Police, Agents, Force, Police Force, Tax System

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

- William E. Simon

topic: Looks, Purpose, Taxes, Tax System

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would produce more jobs. There's a great deal of evidence that they produce more competition for the jobs that exist, and in turn, drive down the cost of labour. Nothing pleases a corporation more than having five people compete for the same job. Competitiveness means good times for machines, not workers, because our tax systems privilege machines over workers.A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

- Eric Reguly

topic: Jobs, Mean, Hard Work, Tax System

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

- Nicholas von Hoffman

topic: People, Blame, Taxes, Federal Taxes, Tax System

Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.

- Shinzo Abe

topic: Recovery, Self, Numbers, Sustaining, Tax System

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

topic: Government, Law, Focus, Systems Of Government, Tax System

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

topic: Needs, Rewards, Financial, Tax System

Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In the year 2000, those governments succeeded in laying hands on more than $3 trillion - almost $11,000 each for the 275 million men, women, and children resident in the country. No other nation-state rakes in an amount even close to the U.S. total.

- Robert Higgs

topic: Tax System

No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.

- Robert H. Frank

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Couple, Party, Simple, Straight Face, Elk

Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with.

- Paul Ryan

source: "Speaker Ryan's "strange bedfellows" partnership with Trump". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 4, 2016.

topic: Jobs, Wages, Growing, Tax System

You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing the effects of Gordon Brown's tax raid which heralded the beginning of the age of responsibility. We are looking at some very specific tax measures on how we can encourage saving.

- George Osborne

source: Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

topic: Responsibility, Ambition, Age, Tax System

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

topic: People, Needs, Care, Tax System

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

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Saving, Wages, Pay, Frugal, Tax System

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

- Bill Gates

topic: Tax System

We need real tax reform which makes the rich and profitable corporations begin to pay their fair share of taxes. We need a tax system which is fair and progressive. Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities by stashing their money in the Cayman Islands.

- Bernie Sanders

source: "Senator Bernie Sanders Launches His Political Revolution for the Presidency of the United States" by Pearl Korn, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2015.

topic: Country, Children, Real, Cayman Islands, Fair Share

We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Special, Taxes, Interest, Tax System

The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

topic: Summer, Mean, Cutting, Last Summer, Deterrence

Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.

- Andrew Mellon

topic: Country, Greatness, Men, Tax System, Crippled

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

topic: Offering, United States, Bills, Difficult Problems, Tax System

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

topic: Opportunity, Government, Support, Deficit Spending, Tax System

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

topic: Years, Ideas, Oil, Tax Reform, Tax System

I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.

- Jamie Dimon

source: Source: asia.nikkei.com

topic: Growth, Want, Taxes, Tax System

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

- Bob Taft

topic: Jobs, Yesterday, Frozen, Frozen In Time, Tax System

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

topic: Believe, People, Achievement, Equitable, Tax System

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

topic: Believe, Government, Roles, Laissez Faire, Tax System

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

- Frederick W. Smith

topic: United States, Today, Investment, Tax System

This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

- Chris Christie

topic: Country, Years, Political, Tax System

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

- Learned Hand

topic: Two, America, Uninformed, Tax System

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

topic: People, Tables, Taxes, Tweak, Tax System

I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did pass it, all of a sudden, what do you have? You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants. Passing that would be amazing, wouldn't it?

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Running, Home, Trying, Flat Tax, Tax System

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

topic: Change, People, Relief, Three Things, Tax System

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

topic: Simple, Needs, Rich, Accountants, Tax System

We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.

- Edwin Feulner

topic: Responsibility, Government, Practice, Expenditures, Tax System

We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

- Millicent Fenwick

source: Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

topic: Men, Pay, Way, Fair Share, Tax System