Bill Cassidy

However, we are concerned that some of the proposals that may be discussed today--such as a national wealth tax, a minimum tax on corporations' 'book profits,' and a swift and significant increase to the budget of the Internal Revenue…

I think one of the partners that made a lot of money from selling--some big Silicon Valley going public, renounced his citizenship and moved to Singapore, if I remember correctly.

On a personal level, I find the estate tax immoral.

The left has a different view: that it is better to take the resources of the American people and filter them through government bureaucracy.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I am totally for the IRS being able to enforce the laws given to it.

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.

When you decrease taxes, you encourage investment, and jobs follow.

The Republicans believe that the best stimulus is a paycheck. And a job is better than a transfer payment to support your family.

As we recover from the pandemic, businesses seek certainty and predictability so they can get back to normal.

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.

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

We will not tax our way to prosperity.

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

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

Thank you, Madam Chair and Mr. Ranking Member, for having this hearing.

If dyslexia is the No. 1 reason for poor reading, or even illiteracy... I feel like we have program failure.

Twenty percent of the population is dyslexic, and if you are dyslexic, you are dyslexic for life.