In my view, part of the challenge is getting the States' Internet tax services and the IRS on the same wavelength.

So the real question is, what is it going to take to root it out and get the bad actors on the sidelines--more prosecutions, stronger deterrence, more cops on the beat?

Suffice it to say, there is kind of a bundle of these tax provisions that eliminate a substantial amount of investment risk, and the people who can take advantage of it pay half the tax rate.

It's a whole lot harder to use the code to your advantage if you're a middle-class individual...

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

There is a need to coordinate the various education incentives in order to simplify these provisions

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

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

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

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

I am right there with them.

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

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

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.

tomorrow morning the Supreme Court is going to hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell. The Supreme Court's ruling could have sweeping consequences for the well-being of millions of Americans and for our Nation's entire health care system…

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.

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

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

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

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

they are correct to be angry at what is happening.

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

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

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