Ron Wyden

If you create a very large tax benefit to being able to declare your income in a certain favored form, you are going to create a lot of people all along the scrupulousness dimension.

The President's proposal to create a special pass-through business income rate, which strikes me as a giant tax giveaway for the top 1 percent, masquerading under the guise of helping small businesses.

It is time for the Congress to take the lies out of the corporate tax rate in America.

I believe that this is an abomination. It is an abomination of the process, it is an abomination of the substance, and it is an abomination of the history of this storied committee.

There is a blueprint for bipartisan, comprehensive tax reform that works. It's Reagan-style tax reform, and it's not what Republicans are working on today.

This morning the Finance Committee is going to spend a few hours spinning its wheels while the actual framework of the Republican tax plan is being written behind closed doors.

The actual architecture of the plan in the works doesn't reduce complexity or focus on the middle class--the Republican plan endows future generations of the mega-wealthy.

Just yesterday the President said, 'Look, I am not going to give big tax breaks to the wealthy.' But as I have pointed out today, Ms. Batchelder has pointed out today, the outline as of today creates a new enormous loophole for the…

The President declared to the Nation that his tax plan would not give any breaks to the wealthy. But the fact is, his one-page tax outline has a new, lunar crater-sized loophole for the wealthy allowing them to abuse pass-through status.

Democrats have laid out principles that I think are very important. We have called for fiscal responsibility and a process that is fair to all members, where they can offer their ideas.

I want to see a tax bill that focuses on the middle class to build the economy out that way. It is really pretty simple.

The President's one-page tax outline has a new lunar crater-sized loophole for the wealthy that would allow them to abuse what is called a tax pass-through.

Congress should ensure that the value and scope of the deduction for charitable contributions is not diminished

But traditional principles of fairness and bipartisanship really do not change. Those are principles for the ages.

The principles of tax fairness are there for the ages.

We Democrats have laid out core principles that I have described today that frankly do not even go as far as what the late President Reagan did.

The Trump plan would put a big focus on the burden of complexity the tax code heaps on so many middle-class families.

This is fake tax reform. This is not just a play at taking away from the blue States.

The tax code, colleagues, in America is a tale of two systems.

We want a deficit-neutral plan.

It'd be great if what I'm hearing about the goals for individual tax reform actually lined up with the details of the plans that are reportedly in the works, but that just isn't the case.

But if Senator McConnell decides to follow the same template he did on health care, where he brought in a handful of five or six--turns out to be all Senators who look like me, different party, but look like me--join with a few drug…

You can see a huge new break there for the very wealthy.

We feel strongly about having the regular order so that members on both sides can offer their ideas and their amendments.

What President Reagan did in 1986 is, he said there would be equal treatment with respect to income earned by a wage earner and income earned by somebody who is in financial services.