Kevin Hassett Quotes

Tax policy is not about compassion.

Look at the current tax code. It’s a 10 million word mess..

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

We should take a look at our tax system every 75 years or so.

Tax reform laws … are like sand castles built next to the ocean. They get washed away.

It’s not easy to get rid of tax loopholes. The reason they are there is that people wanted them there.

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century.

For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.

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.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

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.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

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.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.