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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• Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

  Newt Gingrich

  Judgement, Reform, Input

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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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• Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

  Russell B. Long

  Humorous, Mean, Tree

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• The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

  Grover Norquist

  Powerful, Party, Issues

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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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• Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.

  Dan Rostenkowski

  Running, Risk, Reform

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• EITC is an invitation to fraud.

  Newt Gingrich

  Fraud, Taxes, Invitations

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• Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

  Newt Gingrich

  Keys, Conservative, Taxes

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• Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

  Jerry Weller

  Illinois, Agriculture, Important

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• Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. The centerpiece might be tax reform, both corporate and individual. It is needed, popular and doable. Then go for the low-hanging fruit enjoying wide bipartisan support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas exports, most especially to Eastern Europe. One could then add border security, energy deregulation and health-care reform that repeals the more onerous Obamacare mandates.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Winning, Obamacare, White

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• I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

  Paul Ryan

  Strong, America, Optimism

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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

  Andrew Mellon

  Ideas, Common Sense, Reform

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• Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Reform, Income

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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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• We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Children, Reform

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Humanix Books

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• Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Money, Years

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