This is a critical choice we are facing, and we need to honestly review it.
Our broken Tax Code is but one expression of the burden bad fiscal policy places on the economy.
Well, if the witness would like more time, I think he should be given it.
I do not want us to repeat the mistakes made by some governments of increasing taxes when the real problem is excessive spending.
I really do not believe that there is no waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government, and a sequester or BCA reduction of 2 or 3 perce...
We need to have growth in the private sector, and debt itself is pulling down growth.
the sequester was part of the Budget Control Act. That is what we did.
We cannot continue on this path.
obviously you suggest the choice of reducing deficit between cutting spending and raising taxes, the better choice is to reduce spending.
Rather than increasing tax rates, we should take a lesson from the tax rate reductions of the 1920s, 1960s, and 1980s.
I would suggest that this gives further credence to the argument that we have a difficult--we are not going to get very far, getting our way...
I think then we would have to have a choice about whether we should then lower rates, which would be my personal choice, but more importantl...
We all agree that public policies need to support strong economic growth that benefits all Americans--middle-class Americans, working Americ...
the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the health care costs.
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced dramatic new CO2 regulations that have been interpreted to be the death of coal.
Well, we certainly all believe and share the view there is a great opportunity for bipartisanship in simplifying this Tax Code and making it...
Do you think that the $1 trillion extraordinary deficits we have been running for the last four, five years are creating economic uncertaint...
I do not believe that is spending by the United States Treasury. It is not spending.
