Tax reform Quotes

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

— Newt Gingrich

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

— Newt Gingrich

Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

— Donald Trump

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

— Rob Portman

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

— Max Baucus

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

— Newt Gingrich

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

— John S. Watson

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

— Bill Bradley

Tax reform shouldn't add one penny to our deficit or to the tax bills of middle-class Americans.

— Dianne Feinstein

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

— Brad Schneider

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

— Grover Norquist

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

— Orrin Hatch

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

— Andrew Mellon

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

— Steve Mnuchin

Don't be fooled by Obama's tax reform rhetoric. He is talking about tax increases, pure and simple.

— Anonymous

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

— Erskine Bowles

As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee - the chief tax-writing body in Congress - I understand that true comprehensive…

— Kevin Brady

I think tax reform is the single most important thing we can do in this country to unleash economic energy. It's going…

— Dennis Muilenburg

What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll…

— Pat Robertson

This is again, one of our pieces of our 200-pay plan, part of our very ambitious agenda. We really don't think we…

— Paul Ryan

Obama's Democrats have become the part of no. Real cuts to federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the…

— Charles Krauthammer

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…

— Donald Trump

It is only proper that our employees share in the savings generated by tax reform and that we openly acknowledge the resulting…

— Sergio Marchionne

The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to…

— Bernie Sanders

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very…

— Lawrence Reed

What the government needs to provide business is certainty, and I think we can do that with common-sense, science-based, tax reform, regulatory…

— John E. James

When the president talks about tax reform, he talks about the people who will benefit. He talks about American jobs. He talks…

— James Vance

I think, definitely, this country needs a lower corporate tax rate and tax reform so that we can get our profits that…

— Julian Robertson

Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make…

— Warren Beatty

You have a sense that [Donald] Trump will probably reimagine where the Republican Party is on that issue and some others. But…

— Margaret Hoover

I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal for tax reform.…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a…

— Dennis Muilenburg

Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often…

— Charles Krauthammer

In the eyes of many business leaders, there is never an opportune moment for tax reform. Yes, the economy is losing momentum,…

— Michelle Bachelet

The problem is that everybody, everybody - Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, everybody - on the Republican side said they can't do tax…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

— Grover Norquist

Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.

— Jeb Hensarling

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

— John Cornyn

Tax reform done right will improve incentives to invest in U.S. production and to repatriate profits.

— David Autor

“I am convinced that if most members of Congress did their own taxes, we would have had tax reform long ago.”

— Bill Archer