Rob Portman Quotes

Tax reform is not for the faint-hearted.

Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

The tax code was so complicated that it took so long to master it that one lost the will to reform it.

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

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

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

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need to radically simplify the tax code so that we can re-start the real engine of growth in our economy. That means our tax code needs to go from 73,000 pages down to about three pages.

Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

I understand the tax code better than anybody that's ever run for president.

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

We really believe that we can bring about changes in the tax code that will make America more attractive for investment and job creation and business. But the president has also made it very clear that he wants to put - he wants to put new elements in the tax code that are going to have companies pay a price if they decide to take jobs out of the country and then sell their goods back into the United States.

With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism. People make their own choices. You run the taxes, and you get the results.

If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us a pro-growth tax code, that is how you grow the economy. That's how you take power and money out of Washington and give it back to the people and we are so excited. We have a president [Donald Trump] that is here to work with us in doing that.

President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.

People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.