Ted Cruz Quotes

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

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.

The United States is the only country where it takes more brains to figure your tax than to earn the money to pay it.

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

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

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.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance

For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.

We want to go back to a tax system where Americans sit down at their kitchen table, and they do their taxes on a single sheet of paper. That's what we should have in this America.

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard.

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.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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.

I'm still one who says that we can get rid of the Internal Revenue Service if we would pass the fair tax, which is a tax on consumption rather than a tax on people's income, and move power back where the founders believed it should have been all along.

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

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.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

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