My Republican colleagues and I propose providing predictability to taxpayers by locking in the current individual tax policies on a permanent basis.

If you don't comply, by golly, you are not going to get whatever you are seeking. And that is just a little bit too authoritarian for me.

We will not tax our way to prosperity.

Sometimes we have this spirit of division that suggests that is not true, one for the other.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

I don't ever see a place where the Government's involvement, the Federal Government's involvement actually decreases cost.

What we have seen is because of incredible influence by teachers unions, public schools are closed for in-person instruction.

Thank you, Madam Chair and Mr. Ranking Member, for having this hearing.

The Remain in Mexico policy should be reinstated.

Using terms like 'tax cheaters' seems to prove what Professor Hoopes said, that we use rhetoric in order to shade the argument.

We wish to have prosperity for those who are doing less well. But we have different visions of how to achieve that goal.

there is no such thing, no such thing as a tax that does not hit workers, consumers, and investment.

The left has a different view: that it is better to take the resources of the American people and filter them through government bureaucracy.

Conservatives believe in allowing the American people to keep their own resources and to make the decisions that are best for them.

On a personal level, I find the estate tax immoral.

I think one of the partners that made a lot of money from selling--some big Silicon Valley going public, renounced his citizenship and moved to Singapore, if I remember correctly.

However, we are concerned that some of the proposals that may be discussed today--such as a national wealth tax, a minimum tax on corporations' 'book profits,' and a swift and significant increase to the budget of the Internal Revenue…

Disregard that even the revenue from taxing every billionaire in the country at 100 percent would not come close to what's needed to fund their trillions of dollars in proposed new spending.