Dennis Miller Quotes

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

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 tax code was so complicated that it took so long to master it that one lost the will to reform it.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

[Addressing a young aide:] You have a college education, haven't you? I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, but I don't know where that book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it!

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.

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

The tax code is 100 years old and it looks like it.

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

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.

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.

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.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. And not a one of them is as good.