The favored tax status of debt incentivizes the use of complicated and often wasteful tax-planning strategies.
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The bias in favor of debt under our tax system incentivizes businesses to base financing decisions... on relative tax consequences.
Our tax code's bias in favor of debt financing causes significant distortions in the economy.
The current corporate tax code encourages corporations to finance themselves with debt rather than with equity.
The imposition of new withholding taxes on foreign investors is at best inconsistent with, if not in direct violation of, tax treaties.
The proposal could have large, negative implications for our economy.
Congress should eliminate the double tax on corporate income. The double corporate tax results in less investment, fewer jobs, and lower wages than if all American businesses were subject to a single layer of tax.
Did they or did they not destroy the evidence? They did.
Potentially one of the things that I'm concerned about is the FBI never interviewed Mr. Koskinen.
I believe the Constitution is an inspired document and our Founders put this mechanism in place specifically on civil officers.
The Administration knows it can delay and we can't let them get away with it.
What Congress really wants is access to the documents and the witnesses, because that is the lifeblood of any investigation.
Did they provide false and misleading testimony to Congress? Yes and on more than one occasion.
The first question you have to ask is did they destroy documents that were under subpoena. I think the answer is clearly yes.
I think what we would find is that, in fact, we were lied to in Congress, we were misled in Congress, that there was gross negligence.
That is correct. In fact, they said, 'could select organizations for examinations in an unfair manner.'
I think that is part of it, yes. Yes, I do.