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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.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

I would be open to a proposal that would have some minimum tax level for everyone.

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

If you raise taxes on something, you discourage that activity.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

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 are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.