S.E. Cupp Quotes

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

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

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

The tax code has been flawed and inefficient for a very long time, precisely because fixing it could be so terribly disruptive.

The tax code is just too big.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

The tax code's complexity adds enormous costs to families and businesses across the country and takes nothing short of an army of federal bureaucrats to enforce.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

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

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

Look at the current tax code. It’s a 10 million word mess..

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

The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

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

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

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

The Internal Revenue Code is like a tire that has been patched over and over…. At this point however, it is more patch than tire.

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

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

For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.

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.

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?