Andrew Scheer Quotes

We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it’s not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don’t end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that.

Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

What sensible people want from a tax is to raise as much money as possible with the least disruption to the economy.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

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've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

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

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

The tax code was so complicated that it took so long to master it that one lost the will to reform it.

We have a tax code that works. It brings in our revenue at the lowest cost of administration in the world.

It seems idle to speculate in the abstract as to whether or not a progressive income tax schedule rising to rates in excess of 70 percent are justifiable …. The fact is that such rates cannot be successfully collected.

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.

Taxes must produce ample revenues without discouraging enterprise; and if it is to be just it must distribute the burden of taxes equitably.

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.