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If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.

— Kevin Brady

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

— Gary Johnson

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

— Tim Kaine

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

— Virgil Goode

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

— Jon Lovitz

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

— Kit Bond

Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

— Gore Vidal

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

— Robert Strauss

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.

— Erik Paulsen

Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.

— Maggie Hassan

✗Opposing Perspectives

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.

— John Boehner