High earners pay more in payroll taxes, as Mr. McDermott pointed out, and income taxes throughout their work lives.
Fifty percent of the Medicare beneficiaries in this country have annual incomes at or below $22,500.
The notion that beneficiaries have to have more skin in the game to encourage smart healthcare shopping is ridiculous.
Today, as Ranking Member McDermott said, half of all people with Medicare, 25 million older adults and people with disab...
we are going to call it a premium increase, but it is a tax. It is a tax on the seniors that we are putting on here.
So then you are going to put it all on the richer people, that is the idea.
You are taxing somebody to get more revenue into the system.
But that is revealing that information to some outside organization?
Which is, what rule, what regulation, what statute is in place that prohibits an employee of the IRS from targeting peop...
Gray does not mean there is a green light to go ahead and use these powers of information to go on fishing expeditions.
Well, I think it is clear that we need a very clear statute here.
I want to make it clear at the outset I really do believe that we need clarity in our tax-exempt status on 501(c)(4) org...
This Act... requires sound science so that our country, and future generations, can enjoy the economic benefits.
Maintaining these important and valuable fisheries by continuing to collect the necessary data is important.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you again for the courtesy of allowing me to make my statement.
This Act, like many other statutes dealing with natural resource use, requires sound science so that our country and fut...
I hope this hearing will spark some new thinking about what we can do to get much-needed information.
The overwhelming majority of applications for tax-free status for political activities were from far right groups.
