Rob Portman Quotes

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

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

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.

The tax code is just too big.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

'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.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

Corporations must pay 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.

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

Taxes are always too high.