Mike Pence Quotes

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.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.

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.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

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

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

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

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

We've got to have comprehensive tax reform.

We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

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

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

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.

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.