I agree with your conclusion. I think tax reform, lowering the rate, broadening the base, is good for the economy.
the current income tax is broken and that the VAT is an efficient tax, and it is not necessarily a money machine.
I admit that I think the structural issue ought to be tax reform.
$100 billion is not impressing financial markets.
Is there any reason why the principles of tax reform that were pursued in 1986 would not be once again an engine for job...
What I wanted as part of the end-of-the-year agreement was a 1-year extension of the Bush tax cuts so that you would for...
I think that would have enormous benefits for the economy in a number of respects.
At a little after 8:00, there were more than 30 United States Senators there interested in actually getting into the det...
I am very interested in seeing the corporate rate cut considerably and have proposed cutting it from 35 to 24.
If we have, Mr. Chairman and colleagues, the same debate in the lame duck session of 2012, where we are once again talki...
Which would mean that the fiscal picture you have painted today would not be quite the bleak one that you have offered.
In the middle 1980s, Democrats and Ronald Reagan got together. They got together on taxes, cut taxes, kept progressivity...
I have voted for every market-opening agreement since I have been in public life.
I clearly come to these trade issues looking for ways to open markets.
We ought to make it more attractive to repatriate that money through tax law and incent private sector job growth.
I think the American people have a sense right now-- don't you, Mr. Chairman?--that they want us to do something now.
Today, it is very clear that people loathe the Internal Revenue System.
Would not having a one-page 1040 Form... be a public good in terms of simplicity?
