Ken Cuccinelli Quotes

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

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

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

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

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

We never tell countries that they should have a particular number in terms of a tax number, you know, if countries can make do with whatever average tax they have. The question is, do they apply it to everybody? Or do they give sweetheart deals to some companies?

If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

I don't want to increase taxes, I just want taxes to be paid honestly.

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

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.

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

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

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

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

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

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

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

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

I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.