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It is worth noting here again, even when our top marginal rates were sky-high, we still weren't departing meaningfully.
It's a disingenuous claim that's used as justification for pursuing historic expansion of federal spending.
Those I would add, are almost certainly unconstitutional themselves.
If this isn't evidence of an overwhelmingly progressive federal tax system currently in place, I don't know what would be.
Taking taxes to zero is not going to get us more revenue.
I think it's nuts to somehow think that getting rid of auditors is going to save us money.
We ought to have more people doing audits, and that's going to generate more money for the Federal Government.
There's a quote I love, by I think it's H.L. Mencken, who said 'for every complex problem there's an answer that's simple, clear, and wrong.'
I would also strongly believe that putting in place systems makes a lot of sense.
I agree with much of what Senator Van Hollen has just described.
It's a Democrat, excuse me demagogue approach, which is I think designed to say hey, we want to get people to vote for us because we're going to promise them they can cheat in their taxes because there won't be any audits.
Instead of throwing billions of dollars at the IRS enforcement, our constituents would much better be served by a customer service focus.
The IRS doesn't deserve the presumption it's going to do the right thing all the time.
My Democrat colleagues don't seem to care about the cost to small business. They're bewitched by the idea that the law created a magic money machine that will only extract dollars from the wealthy and large corporations, but their claims…
By all means we should debate whether some of these tax expenditures, such as the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction ought to exist.
I think it's nuts to somehow think that getting rid of auditors is going to save us money.