"No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant."
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"You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control."
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"The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary."
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"You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil."
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"I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere."
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"I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once."
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"The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good."
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"I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life."
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"Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself."
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"We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed."
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"I very much believe in reforming the tax system."
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"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."
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"Here`s the problem with the tax code. You send your money to Washington and then a few have a special carve out for your business, for your industry, if you do something Washington approves of, then they`ll let you keep some of your money back."
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"We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington."
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"We`re working with the administration on working on tax reform. You can go to better.gop and see our blueprint, that`s what we`re working off of. We got to get our tax rates down."
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"But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes."
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"Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform."
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"But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]"
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"The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes."
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"Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes."
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