Ron Wyden actually said...

I think we all understand that about two-thirds of the American economy is now driven by the consumer.

People are falling out of the middle class, not moving upward.

In an era that we are living in of such extreme levels of income inequality, it is appropriate for the tax code to become even more progress...

It is absolutely key to the kind of work we anticipate doing in a bipartisan way to work on tax reform.