We should not have a tax system that allows Fortune 500 companies to not pay federal income tax at all.

If enacted, the law would generally impose an annual 2 percent wealth tax on the net value of a taxpayer's total assets above $50 million.

It's more than fair that they be asked to pay a small percent of their wealth--and I just can't understand why the wealthiest and luckiest people in the world would be complaining about it being such a hardship.

The rich may have run amok. They have run amok for the last 50 years of American history.

I am working with my colleagues, including Chair Wyden, on a bill that strengthens IRS enforcement.

We want to make sure they have enough money to be able to go after the complicated tax schemes that the wealthy are able to use, and the big corporations.

Thank you, Senator Wyden.

That is why I proposed a Real Corporate Profits Tax to force the biggest and the most profitable corporations to pay their taxes.

The tax system has been tilted towards the wealthy and powerful for far too long.

If a tax system is a statement of a country's values, then I really do question ours.

A tax is not a penalty. A tax is not a theft. A tax is a responsibility.