Barack Obama Quotes

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

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.

Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

We've got to have comprehensive tax reform.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

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

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

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

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

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that.

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

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

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

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.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.

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