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But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. -- Richard Neal
The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect. -- Richard Neal
I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . . -- Dave Barry
We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. -- Richard Neal
As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales. -- Dave Barry
The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy. -- Kit Bond
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. -- Dave Barry
The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax Code, the words of politicians -- 7,000,000 words -- and growing! -- Steve Forbes
Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it. -- Dave Barry
That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself. -- Herman Cain
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive. -- Jim Ramstad
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. -- Grover Norquist
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees. -- Chuck Grassley
We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses. -- Marco Rubio
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The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear. -- Dennis Kucinich
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code. -- Marco Rubio
Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment. -- Jim Bridenstine
Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives. -- David Harsanyi
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves. -- Ari Fleischer
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest. -- Ben Bernanke
President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform. -- Glenn Hubbard
Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. -- John Sununu
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody. -- Barry Diller
A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs. -- Jeb Bush
In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them. -- Barack Obama
We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions. -- Charles B. Rangel
There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy. -- Claire McCaskill
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax. -- Herman Cain
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
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. -- Barack Obama
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers. -- Herman Cain
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody. -- Herman Cain
The current tax code is a daily mugging. -- Ronald Reagan
Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children. -- Patricia Schroeder
I understand the tax code better than anybody that's ever run for president. -- Donald Trump
We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work. -- Erik Paulsen
When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold onto your wallets. -- Charles Schumer
The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway. -- Jerry Weller
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. -- Herman Cain
The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. -- Rob Portman
The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news. -- Paul Ryan
Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming. -- Mike Crapo
Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country. -- Gore Vidal
The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code. -- Hillary Clinton
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel. -- Dennis Miller
President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay. -- David Letterman
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward. -- Arlen Specter
The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with. -- Charlie Munger
It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States. -- Hillary Clinton
Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes. -- Kevin McCarthy
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. -- Larry Sabato
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. -- Larry Sabato
I am very concerned about anything that says 'revenue' because let's just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases. -- Jim Jordan
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The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget -- Charles O. Rossotti
Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people. -- Jon Stewart
We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt. -- Michael Bennet
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time. -- Timothy Noah
Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer. -- Jim Bridenstine
I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly. -- Marco Rubio
By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing. -- Ron Paul
In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people. -- Matthew Continetti
I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class. -- Carly Fiorina
Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox. -- Dave Barry
We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code. -- Lindsey Graham
The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code. -- Matt Salmon
The bottom line is we need a tax code that is more simpler, that is more fairer, that gets rid of the special carve-outs, the special lobbyist loopholes. That's the direction we need to go. -- Erik Paulsen
Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget. -- Kevin McCarthy

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