Gary Cohn 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.

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.

For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

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

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

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

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

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.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

We Liberal Democrats don't believe we should use the tax structure to champion just one type of family.

Taxes are always too high.

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

My tax break is your tax hike.

We have a tax code that favors debt over equity.

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.

Repeal of the individual AMT has been a fundamental element of Republican tax reform campaign promises for years.

We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple.

Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.

Every American, and every corporation, should pay their fair share to build the American dream.

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.