Gary Johnson Quotes

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

The tax code is 100 years old and it looks like it.

A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

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

When I was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president back in 1995, 1996, I advocated the fair tax.

Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.

Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most.

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.

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.

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

I'm still one who says that we can get rid of the Internal Revenue Service if we would pass the fair tax, which is a tax on consumption rather than a tax on people's income, and move power back where the founders believed it should have been all along.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

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.

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.

I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.

It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

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