Mr. Speaker, it is the time for authorizations, and one of the topics of discussion today, of course, is our armed services authorizations, military bills, as we get briefings on what is necessary to defend our country from our external…

I am hopeful that we can take serious steps on this and lead because the United States needs to lead here, not just for our country, but for the world.

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I think we should try to control them, improve them if we can, but the most important thing I think we need to do is fund them properly.

Another problem is if you add it to an income tax you just end up raising massive revenue which I do believe does hurt economic growth.

I just think that we need proper funding.

I think we need a new tax.

So you think we should have a top tax rate of 73 percent.

Medicare part D raised the deficit forever by about 1 percent of GDP.

I've advocated a value-added tax for many years as a supplement to our existing tax system.

My point always is what we ought to have done in 2017, like we ought to do now is simplify it and rationalize it.

Another problem is if you add it to an income tax you just end up raising massive revenue which I do believe does hurt economic growth.

I started this thing talking about simplifying and rationalizing the Tax Code, so I'm envisioning a very simple Tax Code.

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I just think that we need proper funding.

I think we should try to control them, improve them if we can, but the most important thing I think we need to do is fund them properly.

Medicare part D raised the deficit forever by about 1 percent of GDP.

I've advocated a value-added tax for many years as a supplement to our existing tax system.