Kristi Noem Quotes

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 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.

Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

The tax code was so complicated that it took so long to master it that one lost the will to reform it.

Does the Internal Revenue Service work for you or do you work for them?

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

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 say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard.

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.

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.

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.

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

You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively.

What sensible people want from a tax is to raise as much money as possible with the least disruption to the economy.

The United States is the only country where it takes more brains to figure your tax than to earn the money to pay it.

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

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

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

I voted in support of H.R. 5445, the 21st Century IRS Act, which requires the IRS to place more taxpayer services online.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

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.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.