there is no such thing, no such thing as a tax that does not hit workers, consumers, and investment.

If you don't comply, by golly, you are not going to get whatever you are seeking. And that is just a little bit too authoritarian for me.

Disregard that even the revenue from taxing every billionaire in the country at 100 percent would not come close to what's needed to fund their trillions of dollars in proposed new spending.

We wish to have prosperity for those who are doing less well. But we have different visions of how to achieve that goal.

My Republican colleagues and I propose providing predictability to taxpayers by locking in the current individual tax policies on a permanent basis.

If they don't value the protections and services provided to citizens of the United States then fine.

Sometimes we have this spirit of division that suggests that is not true, one for the other.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

I always found it ironic that the working people in my State are subsidizing the billionaire buying the Tesla.

I completely agree, we need to actually talk about, issue by issue, what these things actually are, whether they are justified, and eliminate them or not.

I don't ever see a place where the Government's involvement, the Federal Government's involvement actually decreases cost.

Conservatives believe in allowing the American people to keep their own resources and to make the decisions that are best for them.

What we have seen is because of incredible influence by teachers unions, public schools are closed for in-person instruction.

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Using terms like 'tax cheaters' seems to prove what Professor Hoopes said, that we use rhetoric in order to shade the argument.

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This doesn't have anything to do with justice. This has everything to do with power.