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The policies enacted in our tax and our transfer system are creating a huge disincentive for people to work.

We seek lower taxes, individual responsibility, and less intrusive government, and we take a backseat to no one in terms of caring for the less fortunate in our communities.

Yet I do not believe that the motivation for today's hearing is politics or class warfare.

Why on earth would the administration, if it is interested in helping the middle class, move 20 percent of health care costs from progressive taxation to lump-sum taxation?

Why can we not get people to work?

What little deficit reduction we have seen has been, by a factor of 9-to-1, due more to increased taxes than reductions in spending.

There are two ways to analyze the condition of middle-income Americans.

Do you perceive the transition of power to cause much disruption of the day-to-day military cooperation between U.S. and Afghan forces?

President Karzai will be out of office by the end of this year.

The primary efforts to fight recruitment of insurgent forces are Afghan led with media campaigns highlighting the ANA and ANP.

What is the goal of insurgent groups who are fighting against our forces in Afghanistan?

A continued counterterrorism mission will also be needed to ensure al Qaeda remains focused on survival and not on regeneration.

Without continued pressure, al Qaeda will regenerate and once again directly threaten the United States and its interests.

A stable Afghanistan can contribute to the reduction of those spaces and contribute in the aggregate to denying enemies access to the homeland and ultimately neutralizing terrorist networks.

A residual force would be tasked with preventing the enemy from attacking the homeland and continue to build sustainable partnerships that would protect national interests from potential threats from the region.

Our objective for Afghanistan beyond 2014 remains developing a sustainable, inclusive, and increasingly stable political order committed to and capable of denying safe haven to al Qaeda.

I urge the committee to resist calls to bring America closer to a single-payer system.

Is it the assumption or the presentation of the Department of Defense that retiring the A-10s is a budget-saver?