Ron Wyden

Our tax system has become so incredibly complicated, so byzantine, that even someone who really knows their way around an accounting textbook has a hard time getting everything right.

The phase-out of benefits for high-income taxpayers should be made uniform across all similar incentives

I can tell you a bipartisan majority here on the Finance Committee does not believe investment in real estate is evil.

It seems to me there is a disparity in terms of fairness.

There are many incentives in the tax law related to education which have different income phase-outs

I think this is another important step in our effort to build a bipartisan coalition for tax reform.

Taxpayers view this difference as unfair since many more taxpayers can claim mileage for charity

I am right there with them.

It would aid in simplification if modified adjusted gross income for similar provisions could be made uniform

Millions of Americans are stuck, buried under mountains of tax forms, documents, and receipts.

There is no question it is a big problem. The question is, what can we do to get started, and this is bipartisan.

So the consumer is not in a position to make those purchases of durable goods and create demand and put people to work.

We have focused on growing American workers' paychecks, putting more dollars into their pocket.

The most important thing to do is have the tide come in, and that is what we are missing.

Too many Americans feel stuck. Too many Americans worry about being able to afford necessities.

An unfair tax reform plan would risk heaping a new burden on people who are already struggling to get ahead.

They are correct to be angry at what is happening.

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

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 progressive.

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

The challenge of tax reform can go one of two ways.

We have to get going on this in a bipartisan way.

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

If there's a common economic theme to take away from the town halls and meetings I hold in Oregon, it's that people feel stuck.

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