Orrin Hatch Quotes

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.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

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.

Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

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

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

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

We need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects taxpayers. Not special interests.

Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.

'Tax' is a bad word for politicians.

We've got to have comprehensive tax reform.

For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

Either you're going to have to vote for taxes or not vote for taxes. So, if you've already voted for taxes, you've already done it.

We're working with the administration on working on tax reform. You can go to better.gop and see our blueprint, that's what we're working off of. We got to get our tax rates down.

I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.

As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

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.

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.