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Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race. -- Jimmy Carter
Our current tax system is broken. -- Dick Armey
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. -- William E. Simon
The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment. -- Frederick W. Smith
If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system. -- Bob Taft
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business. -- Allen West
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To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly. -- Mike Huckabee
We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform. -- Brad Schneider
We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary. -- Adam Davidson
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 Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions. -- Ralph Hall
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
I very much believe in reforming the tax system. -- Barack Obama
The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer. -- Edward Kennedy
gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system. -- Joe Jordan
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. -- Isabel Paterson
Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand? -- Dave Barry
We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions. -- Hillary Clinton
The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose. -- William E. Simon
The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993. -- Ray LaHood
I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not. -- Jamie Dimon
The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people. -- Edward C. Prescott
Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with. -- Paul Ryan
The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money -- Nicholas von Hoffman
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
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
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s. -- Anthony Foxx
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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

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