Jerry Weller Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

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

We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

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.

Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

It's time the government stopped using taxes to reward winners and losers in love.

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

A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.

In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

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

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

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.

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

'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.

We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.

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