Allen West Quotes

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

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.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

I support a progressive state income tax.

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.

As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

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.

The income tax is the fairest, the most equitable system of taxation that has yet been devised.

I believe in a progressive tax structure that fairly distributes the costs of government in a way that those of us fortunate to have more, carry more of the burden.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

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.

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

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.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates.

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

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.

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.