Charles B. Rangel Quotes

We need a tax code where everyone pays his fair share.

I believe that hardworking people should retain as much of the money as they can in terms of the taxes that they pay. But I think everybody should pay their taxes.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

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.

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes.

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

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

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

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

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

When the federal government promises no new taxes, they're promising no new federal taxes.

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.

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

If there is one thing that most economists agree about in the realm of tax policy, it is that it's best to broaden the base of any tax, all else being equal. That means minimizing the number of deductions and exclusions from taxable income in order to lower marginal rates and reduce distortions.

Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

The tax code is just too big.

Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

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.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

It's not hard to cut taxes.