I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.
Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.
When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.
We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit.
I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.
I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.
And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.
I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.
A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.
Any time you do tax reform, you really need to have a transition period.
People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
I very much believe in reforming the tax system.
Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.
Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.
Tax reform should happen rather quickly.
We need to have the growth. If we simply look at this as being deficit-neutral, you're never going to get the type of tax reform and tax reductions that you need to get to sustain 3 percent economic growth. We really do believe that the tax code is what's holding back the American economy.
Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.
A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.
