Bill Bradley Quotes

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it’s not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don’t end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.

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.

Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.

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

We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple.

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.

We have a tax code that works. It brings in our revenue at the lowest cost of administration in the world.

Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.

Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance

Tax reform is not for the faint-hearted.

[Addressing a young aide:] You have a college education, haven't you? I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, but I don't know where that book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it!

Look at the current tax code. It’s a 10 million word mess..

The Internal Revenue Code is like a tire that has been patched over and over…. At this point however, it is more patch than tire.