David Harsanyi Quotes

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.

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

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

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.

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

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

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.

We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving - and allow families to keep more of their own money.

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.

I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.

Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.

The Trump tax cuts mean business.

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.

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.

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.

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

Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.

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.

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

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.

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

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

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