Dick Armey Quotes

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda.

[Describing out tax system:] ... a disgrace to the human race.

Rail against taxes of all kinds.

The tax structure of the United States is fast becoming the most regressive of any Western nation.

Only the little people pay taxes.

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

Like or loathe Donald J. Trump, you have to give him this: He's done more to shine a spotlight on the loopholes and fundamental unfairness of the tax code than any other American president.

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

Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the '80s and '90s can never change, is absurd.

Some taxes are really dumb.

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

Tax policy is not about compassion.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

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

It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.