A. Hodge Tax Quotations

Taxes matter to businesses. How a state taxes business is just as important as how much a state taxes businesses.

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

You're foursquare in a dilemma if you want to broaden the base and lower tax rates. If you broaden the base, you raise taxes on people who pay nothing, and if you lower rates you cut taxes for the rich.

What we need is a windfall profits tax on government. Government makes far more money per gallon than the oil companies do.

Alaska, in many respects, is a cheaper tax place to do business and should be a very attractive place for companies to locate or expand in.

Alaska has the third best tax system for business in the nation for the second year in a row.

These findings raise serious questions about the future of the U.S. income tax system. The majority of the federal tax burden is being borne by a shrinking pool of taxpayers. As Congress considers tax reform proposals during the coming year, this is an issue lawmakers should begin to debate.

States do not enact tax changes in a vacuum. Every tax change will affect a state's competitive position relative to its neighbors, as well as globally.

Americans spent 6 billion hours last year complying with the tax code.

If local citizens want to pony up the money to right this wrong, they should put up the tax dollars. They should not come begging to Washington to do it.

You had a president who was clearly committed to fundamental tax reform, and we assumed that they would be taking that commitment to heart.