John Layfield Quotes

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

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

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

Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.

Tax reform is not for the faint-hearted.

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.

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

I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

I'm still one who says that we can get rid of the Internal Revenue Service if we would pass the fair tax, which is a tax on consumption rather than a tax on people's income, and move power back where the founders believed it should have been all along.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

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

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

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.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

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

North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.