The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

The 2017 tax reform was guided by an underlying theory in terms of the design on the business side of that.

Before COVID, Republican-led tax cuts spurred the greatest economy of our lifetime; record low unemployment for every demographic.

It would be okay to get back to the best economy of my lifetime. That would be a good thing to aspire to.

The rich will do fine. The rich are going to do fine.

What do you tell a family who loses their job because new taxes on the rich corporations make their employer's business model no longer viable?

I would argue that the vision of creating jobs for all, as opposed to rewarding the inactivity of some who are politically connected, is part of what underlies this conversation.

U.S. carbon emissions have been falling for years.

Today, I expect we will hear calls for Green New Deal-type policies. Our discussion needs to include the costs of these policies, including lost American jobs, slow economic growth, increase energy costs, and waste billions of taxpayer…

Congress should work with the administration to make sure that an exclusion process is reinstated.

We need to weigh these costs against the perceived potential benefits of a shift, and we should do so in an open, transparent, and accountable way.

I would also argue that 232 steel and aluminum tariffs have been harmful to the U.S. economy, by an objective measure.