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Charles E. Grassley
@charlesegrassley· IA· Jun 12, 2024

Congress should regularly examine tax incentives, just as we should review spending programs to ensure that they're working as intended.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 11, 2024

It's just ridiculous to think you can raise marginal tax rates to 93 percent and you're going to get people stupid enough to pay 93 percent of their income in taxes, so they're working for nothing.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 11, 2024

Okay. Won't the policies Democrats chose to enact as part of their misnamed Inflation Reduction Act overwhelmingly benefit large corporations, as well as banks and even private equity firms?

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 11, 2024

Proponents of a financial transaction tax argue it would promote market stability. Has that been the experience of countries who have implemented such a tax?

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 11, 2024

Isn't it true that many of the tax proposals that we've heard about today haven't been enacted because of the Democrats' own failure to enact when they had that opportunity?

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 11, 2024

Since the 2020 campaign, President Biden has pledged not to raise taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 11, 2024

However, at the Budget Committee hearing last year, the majority witness, Bruce Bartlett, let slip the truth by saying this. Quote: 'I think we should raise taxes on the wealthy, but we're going to have to eventually raise taxes on the…

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 11, 2024

My democrat colleagues talk a big game about making Wall Street pay their fair share.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 11, 2024

Congress should regularly examine tax incentives, just as we should review spending programs to ensure that they're working as intended.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 5, 2024

Insurance isn't a partisan issue. Mitigation and resilience is not a partisan issue.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 5, 2024

How has the Biden administration's economic leadership failed to help our economy, and what can this Committee do to get our economy back on track?

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 5, 2024

Climate change isn't the primary driver of insurance rates hikes, and collapse of the insurance industry isn't imminent.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 5, 2024

Inflation has become embedded in the economy, and the historic levels of borrowing by the Federal Government are crowding out the private sector.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 5, 2024

If the majority get their way, Americans can expect to pay much more to put gas in their cars, and to heat their homes.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 5, 2024

Expensive liberal policies, not climate change, are much to blame for these market dynamics.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 5, 2024

President Biden and the majority would like us all to ignore our exploding $34 trillion debt.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 5, 2024

The majority refuses to write a budget, or work together to curb reckless Washington spending.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jun 5, 2024

It's probably time, or past time, to get back to an adult conversation among elected officials about getting the Federal Government back on a sustainable fiscal path.

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