I agree with the President. That is exactly what we do not want to do. We want fixed-price contracts.
If you do not get a buy-in of companies' capital on research... they are not ever going to be as efficient.
Part of your statement was the fact that you think this is going to change the way the government operates.
Actually, the President, Senator Carper, myself, and Senator McCain put through USAspending.gov.
I am concerned about it and I know the President is concerned about it.
I am intrigued by your voluntary disclosure process. I think that is a message that needs to go out to this country.
We are going to find you, in other words.
The World Bank ranks the U.S. 76th on having a low burden of business taxes and tax compliance costs.
Should there be?
It is just simply a matter of fairness that if you owe taxes in the country, you ought to pay them.
I do have one central concern: That we not drive capital out of this country.
As a fundamental matter of fairness, if you owe taxes to your government, you ought to pay them.
The U.S. boasts the following dubious distinctions: The 2nd-highest corporate tax rate in the world at 40 percent.
The earmarks, if you total them up, are less than 1 percent of the $410 billion, so we're not talking about a huge amount.
At the end of the day, attitude is everything.
I think there really is a very strong bipartisan constituency for this sort of thing...
I am all for shifting.
If you want our kids that we send off to battle to have the best equipment, then we need to have F-22s.
