Bob Beckel Quotes

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

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.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

I support a progressive state income tax.

We've got to have comprehensive tax reform.

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.

A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

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

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

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

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

A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.

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.

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.

The last time we made a significant change in the American Tax Code, we din't have cell phones.