Don Nickles Quotes

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

The first 9 pages of the Internal Revenue Code define income; the remaining 1,100 pages spin the web of exceptions and preferences.

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

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.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

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.

No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.

[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.

Here's the problem with the tax code. You send your money to Washington and then a few have a special carve out for your business, for your industry, if you do something Washington approves of, then they'll let you keep some of your money back.

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.

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.

For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.

Death should not be a taxable event.

I have pledged to work hard to get the state and local tax deduction cap lifted.

We live in the only country in the world where it takes more brains to figure out your income tax that it does to earn the income.

If [Donald Trump] is paid zero [taxes], that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health.

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

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