Charles E. Grassley

I'm going back to this comes up why can't you guys do something about saving Social Security and Medicare?

President Biden continues to use his pen and phone to spend trillions, particularly on student loan bailouts, and in these unprecedented fiscal times that's the height of recklessness.

Most importantly, we must have a frank discussion about Washington's spending addiction.

I'm going back to this comes up why can't you guys do something about saving Social Security and Medicare?

I don't put much stock in a study of Biden's fiscal records that leaves out hundreds of billions of dollars of unlawful student loan giveaways.

We must stop digging ourselves into an ever deeper budget hole, and I think the budget agreement reached between McCarthy and Biden a year ago starts us down that track.

Taxpayers and workers, and investors are smarter than we are in the United States Senate, because we've had 93 marginal tax rates.

any great power that spends more on debt service than on defense, will not stay great for a long time, a very long time.

President Biden continues to use his pen and phone to spend trillions, particularly on student loan bailouts, and in these unprecedented fiscal times that's the height of recklessness.

Rather than punish success, tax reform should focus on incentivizing work, savings, and investment.

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.

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…

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

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

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.

Okay. As you discussed in your testimony, Americans have been ravaged by high inflation, and the other side continues to propose tax increase after tax increase.

Okay. As you discussed in your testimony, Americans have been ravaged by high inflation, and the other side continues to propose tax increase after tax increase.

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?

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

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…

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?

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

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?

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?

Activists often adopt scientific arguments as a source of a moral legitimation for their movements which can be radical and destructive rather than rational and constructive.