I am hearing that you plan to move USAspending.gov to Recovery.gov, which scares me to death based on what I see in Reco...
Thirty-six billion of it is wasted. The American taxpayer needs to know that.
What we ought to be doing is redoubling our efforts to where we get that down to about 2 or 3 percent.
I have heartburn over the $787 billion. I have heartburn over the $55.1 billion.
The World Bank ranks the U.S. 76th on having a low burden of business taxes and tax compliance costs.
I do have one central concern: That we not drive capital out of this country.
Should there be?
It is just simply a matter of fairness that if you owe taxes in the country, you ought to pay them.
We are going to find you, in other words.
The U.S. boasts the following dubious distinctions: The 2nd-highest corporate tax rate in the world at 40 percent.
As a fundamental matter of fairness, if you owe taxes to your government, you ought to pay them.
I am intrigued by your voluntary disclosure process. I think that is a message that needs to go out to this country.
The earmarks, if you total them up, are less than 1 percent of the $410 billion, so we're not talking about a huge amoun...
At the end of the day, attitude is everything.
I am all for shifting.
I think there really is a very strong bipartisan constituency for this sort of thing...
If you want our kids that we send off to battle to have the best equipment, then we need to have F-22s.
If these countries do enact strict and expensive regulations, we will then avert the 4 degree and instead incur only a 2...
