We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
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.
Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.
I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
I would rather we limited - for the sake of transparency - we limited the number of taxes that we had and we were right up front about what they are, how much they are, and so forth.
I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.
At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.