Matt Gaetz Quotes

We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple.

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

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

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

The tax code has been flawed and inefficient for a very long time, precisely because fixing it could be so terribly disruptive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

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.

What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.

We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

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

Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes.

Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

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

Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.