Paul Ryan Quotes

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

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.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

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

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.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

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

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

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.

The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.