Rob Portman Quotes

Tax reform laws … are like sand castles built next to the ocean. They get washed away.

For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.

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

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

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

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

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

North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

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

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

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

What you don't want to have is tax-driven economic activity.

We demand a graduated income tax.

made it a catechism that low taxes solve everything

It seems idle to speculate in the abstract as to whether or not a progressive income tax schedule rising to rates in excess of 70 percent are justifiable …. The fact is that such rates cannot be successfully collected.

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

Scratch any Republican today and all you will hear is “Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts.” Its pure demagoguery…. We have demonized taxes.