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The tax code is just too big.
That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.
I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.
Lord knows I'm all for lowering rates and simplifying the tax code.
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.
There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.
I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.
We need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects taxpayers. Not special interests.
The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.
The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.
I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.
I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.
You can't use the tax code as a penal system because you don't like what a country is doing.
We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.
The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.
Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.
Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.
What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.
Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
I do see great opportunity to make reforms to our tax code, making it simpler, fairer and removing corporate loopholes.
I'm tired of seeing American jobs, manufacturing, and headquarters forced overseas due to a tax code that works against us.
We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.
Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.
Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.
I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.
Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.
North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.
We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving - and allow families to keep more of their own money.
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.
For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.
We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get rid of needless giveaways.
We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.
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.
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.
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.
Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.
The media's apoplectic reaction to 2018 tax refunds displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the U.S. tax code and the very notion of what a refund actually is.
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.
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.
Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.
Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the '80s and '90s can never change, is absurd.
The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
I am in favor of reforming our tax code. It's over-burdensome. It's complex. It's unfair. But the one thing that we have to do is make sure that all Americans receive a tax cut.
The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
We should seriously rethink a tax code that makes it less and less possible for one parent to stay home with the kids and replace it with a family-friendly system of tax collection.