Tax Reform Quotes

• We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

  Winston Churchill

  Freedom, Humor, Men

  Winston S. Churchill “Young Statesman”

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• Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

  Art Buchwald

  Past, Reform, Taxation

  Art Buchwald (1963). “I Chose Capitol Punishment”

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• Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

  John Cornyn

  Zero, Real, America

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• A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

  Russell B. Long

  Guy, Liberty, Reform

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• Don't tax you, don't tax me;
  Tax the companies across the sea.

  Dan Rostenkowski

  Sea, Libertarian, Taxes

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• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Zero, Funny Life, Business

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 264), 2004.

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• Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

  Max Baucus

  Opportunity, Reform, Generations

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• When Congress talks of tax reform, grab your wallet and run for cover.

  Steve Symms

  Running, Government, Reform

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cutting, Reform, Increase

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Choices, Reform, Made

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• Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

  Newt Gingrich

  Judgement, Reform, Input

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• 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.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Years, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

  John S. Watson

  Strong, Reform, Taxes

  "The Case for U.S. Multinationals". Speech, www.cfr.org. November 29, 2012.

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• I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform.

  Tom Reed

  Thinking, Issues, Reform

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• Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

  Lawrence Reed

  Liberty, Welfare Reform, Care

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• I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Issues, Feelings, Important

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• Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.

  Warren Beatty

  Years, Ideas, Oil

  Interview with R. Couri Hay, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.

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• If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.

  Timothy Geithner

  Senior, Cutting, Class

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• The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gun, Obamacare, Majority

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You have a sense that [Donald] Trump will probably reimagine where the Republican Party is on that issue and some others. But then I think conservatives may win in some areas, too - tax reform. So it's just - it's an enormously exciting time in terms of the possibilities.

  Margaret Hoover

  Party, Thinking, Winning

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My administration's policies on regulatory reform, tax reform, trade policies, will return significant manufacturing jobs to our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Reform

  "Trump Meets With Manufacturers". Interview with Steve Inskeep, krwg.org. February 24, 2017.

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• We'll be submitting healthcare sometime in early March [2017], mid March, and after that, we're going to come up, and we're doing very well on tax reform.

  Donald Trump

  Reform, Healthcare, March

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

  Donald Trump

  Reform, Should, Taxes

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We`re working with the administration on working on tax reform. You can go to better.gop and see our blueprint, that`s what we`re working off of. We got to get our tax rates down.

  Paul Ryan

  Administration, Reform, Taxes

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• This is again, one of our pieces of our 200-pay plan, part of our very ambitious agenda. We really don`t think we can get the kind of economic growth we could - we had the potential to get without tax reform.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, Growth, Ambitious

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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