Arthur Auerbach Quotes

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

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

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

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

That’s why the tax code is so long [76,000 pages]. So we can take advantage of it.

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

We should take a look at our tax system every 75 years or so.

Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

Taxes are not something that lends to experimentation. You want to go slow, you could knock the whole economy into a cocked hat with experimentation.

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

The tax code is just too big.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

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 think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

'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.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Corporations must pay tax.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

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.