John Kerry actually said...

"Is it possible, in your judgment, to structure a system that lowers the rates, broadens that base, and improves progressivity and creates growth in your judgment?"

"Didn't we contribute to them relatively substantially when we passed the preferential treatment on capital gains and dividends?"

"I think we have got to understand the relationship between those choices, that the actual tax expenditure itself post-1986 is substantially the same as the one we have today."

"So if all we do in this committee is $1.2 trillion, we, in effect, are not reducing the deficit below the current levels or rates?"