"there are very few members who have come up with such significant contributions in tax reform and health care reform"
"What the whole exercise is about is creating incentives for this economic renaissance that this country wants so much at this time."
"the people of my State have voted against a VAT something like 850 times."
"There is a sense that it is just a back-door plan to hike taxes."
"I find it pretty alarming how short shrift small business is getting in this whole discussion about tax reform."
"More than 90 United States Senators voted against a VAT."
"I just do not want them forgotten."
"I agree with your conclusion. I think tax reform, lowering the rate, broadening the base, is good for the economy."
"the current income tax is broken and that the VAT is an efficient tax, and it is not necessarily a money machine."
"I admit that I think the structural issue ought to be tax reform."
"$100 billion is not impressing financial markets."