Erin Isabelle Burnett Quotes

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

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

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

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.

There's always another loophole to get out of the tax code.

There is spending in the tax code.

We can’t write a tax law that their lawyers can’t get around.

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

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.

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

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

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

Politicians and economists figure out an elaborate system of tax and economic incentives and then every body else figures out a way to beat it

Whenever you find a tax loophole, someone else is going to call it a tax incentive.

You can close [tax] loopholes, but people will always find new ones.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted

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

The tax code is just too big.

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

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.

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

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.

I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.