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Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government. -- Grover Norquist
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue. -- Grover Norquist
I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. -- Grover Norquist
What we need is fundamental tax reform. -- Rob Portman
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' -- Russell B. Long
A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform. -- Russell B. Long
I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. -- Grover Norquist
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. -- Andrew Mellon
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. -- Chuck Schumer
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform. -- John Cornyn
We are committed to doing trade, tax reform, infrastructure. All we need is someone that wants to work with us. -- Kevin McCarthy
We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform. -- Brad Schneider
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. -- Art Buchwald
I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there. -- Jack Kingston
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
The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes. -- John Hoeven
We're going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children's future and buy a new house. -- Kevin McCarthy
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. -- John Kasich
What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts. -- Pat Robertson
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
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
I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment. -- Brian Mulroney
We pursued the wrong policies. George Bush is not on the ballot. Bill Clinton is not on the ballot. Mitt Romney is on the ballot, and Barack Obama is on the ballot. And Mitt Romney is proposing tax reform, regulatory reform, a wise budget strategy and trade. The president has proposed tax increases. -- Glenn Hubbard
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. -- Grover Norquist
Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. -- Max Baucus
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values. -- Bill Bradley
Input of public judgement for any major tax reform. -- Newt Gingrich
Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform. -- John S. Watson
Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse. -- Dan Rostenkowski
When Congress talks of tax reform, grab your wallet and run for cover. -- Steve Symms
When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold onto your wallets. -- Charles Schumer
Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree." -- Russell B. Long
A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform. -- Russell B. Long
We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money. -- Carly Fiorina
I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform. -- Tom Reed
Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were. -- Erskine Bowles
I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him. -- Rush Limbaugh
I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him. -- Rush Limbaugh
Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made. -- Sir Arthur Sullivan
Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules). -- Robert Reischauer
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
When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well. -- David Rubenstein
I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue. -- Mitch McConnell
Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district. -- Jerry Weller
The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay. -- Bernie Sanders
Obama's Democrats have become the part of no. Real cuts to federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the corrupt and fiscally unsustainable symbiosis between public-sector unions and state governments? Hell no. -- Charles Krauthammer

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