Gary Johnson Quotes

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.

Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.

Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

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.

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.

I think the first thing we should do is abolish the income tax.

I've always intuitively liked the consumption-tax model.

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

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.

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

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

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.

We demand a graduated income tax.

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