Bill Bradley Quotes

It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour.

It's time the government stopped using taxes to reward winners and losers in love.

Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes.

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

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

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

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

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.

Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

There is spending in the tax code.

We need a tax code where everyone pays his fair share.

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

Many tax experts say a key element to any fundamental overhaul is getting rid of certain deductions for businesses - the 'special-interest giveaways that are masked as tax breaks,' as House Republicans describe many of them in their own proposal.

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

The tax code is just too big.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

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.