Dick Armey Tax Quotations

Whether it's reducing a particular tax or reforming the entire tax code, the issue is fairness,

We're going to have a tax cut, ... Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

We're going to continue to insist we can do more, ... You have ample room for tax reductions that are larger.

My flat tax proposal is still alive and well with the American people and it's on its way to becoming the law of the land before I retire from Congress,

If we do this job right, and we have the ability to do so, we can allow the people of this country to fulfill one of the great American ideals: having a tax code that they realize is civil and decent (and) treats them with respect. They can then comply with that code out of a sense of civic duty and personal responsibility and voluntary compliance.

I believe that we need more, not less, tax relief to pull this struggling economy out of its nose dive, and will work to ensure that the final package gets the surplus out of Washington and into the pockets of taxpaying Americans,

Americans understand it is wrong to tax marriage, ... We will have to put it up on the floor next year and have a president who will sign it.

I don't think there will be time for another tax bill. We're talking about three or four months ... of finely tuned agreements, ... You don't just go back over the weekend and put it back together again. It's not realistic, it's simply not realistic.

The forms for the Earned Income Tax Credit are 27 pages in the instruction booklet, and already we have people of low income that should be doing 1040EZ on their weekend are now taking it to H&R Block,