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.

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.

If they don't value the protections and services provided to citizens of the United States then fine.

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

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

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

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

Sometimes we have this spirit of division that suggests that is not true, one for the other.

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

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…

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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we need to go back to the economy we had before COVID hit.

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