Ben Carson Quotes

I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

The income tax is the fairest, the most equitable system of taxation that has yet been devised.

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.

By getting rid of loopholes, you are making the system more fair so people who make the same kind of money pay the same taxes.

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

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.

I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

the most just and equitable tax that can be devised.

By an equal obligation … every citizen with the same means would pay the same contributions [taxes]; the common man would not be more heavily imposed upon.

The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.

Democrats must rally behind a low-rate, broad-based tax system that is fair, simple and efficient.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.

I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation.

I've traveled the country advocating for the Fair Tax, along with Herman Cain, Neal Boortz, and John Linder.

Whether you're earning income because you have money sitting in the bank or a stock account somewhere, you should be taxed on that income fairly and the same.

One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.

We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

The bottom line is we need a tax code that is more simpler, that is more fairer, that gets rid of the special carve-outs, the special lobbyist loopholes. That's the direction we need to go.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.