The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion – famously drawn on a napkin – that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.

Our current tax system is broken.

I’m not for a temporary war tax. We’re putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we’re gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don’t have to pay income tax that day because they’re not working.

An income tax form is like a laundry list – either way you lose your shirt.

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to – to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.