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

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

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

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

Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy.

So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

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.

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.