Tax System Quotes

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.

I would change the tax system markedly. The market system is wonderful but you have to take care of the poople who are left behind and do not profit from it.

The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

The income tax is the fairest, the most equitable system of taxation that has yet been devised.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.

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

I think there's a lot to be said for changing the balance of what we tax: wealth versus work.

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

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

Only the little people pay taxes.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

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

So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.

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.

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

[Describing out tax system:] ... a disgrace to the human race.