We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.
The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.
Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.
Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.
Tax reform is the legislative challenge of a generation for America. It hasn't been accomplished since 1986, when President Reagan and Congress delivered the most sweeping overhaul of our nation's tax code in American history. 2017 is the year to change that and make history of our own.
That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.
I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.
President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.
The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.
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.
I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.
