Erik Paulsen Quotes

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.

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

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

The critical thing is that we have to reduce the tax burden.

The tax code is just too big.

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

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.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

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

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

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

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

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

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

Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.

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.

So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

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

Savings is the fundamental input for capital investment, and capital investment is the primary ingredient in productivity.

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

The last time we made a significant change in the American Tax Code, we din't have cell phones.