Herman Cain Quotes

Tax reform is not for the faint-hearted.

The tax code is just too big.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

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.

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

That’s why the tax code is so long [76,000 pages]. So we can take advantage of it.

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

The tax code has been flawed and inefficient for a very long time, precisely because fixing it could be so terribly disruptive.

The last time we made a significant change in the American Tax Code, we din't have cell phones.

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.

Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

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

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.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

Taxes are always too high.

We should take a look at our tax system every 75 years or so.

You cannot reform a tax system without some pain and without someone getting hurt.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

Tax reform laws … are like sand castles built next to the ocean. They get washed away.