Don Nickles: “I think for tax simplicity, you should allow every business to be able to expense certainly its wages.”

Congress passed a bad law called the Windfall Profits Tax. That motivated me to run for Senate more than anything else.

If you do really good tax reform, you do not need energy tax issues. Let the marketplace work.

We should not be giving advantages to our international competitors over our U.S.-based companies.

I do not defend 199, period. I think Congress--when you are rewriting the tax code, you should have a uniform corporate rate, not a lower rate for manufacturing.