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Kevin Brady

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Kevin Brady is a Republican politician from Texas, best known for his role as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served from 1997 to 2021. During his tenure, he held significant positions, including Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, where he played a key role in shaping tax policy and economic legislation. Brady was instrumental in the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which aimed to reduce taxes for individuals and businesses. He has also been an advocate for various initiatives related to trade, healthcare, and education.

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Jul 14, 2014

Chairman Camp's amendment simply seeks the truth. It seeks the truth about what the IRS knew, what they targeted, what they offered up--more importantly, simply to make available those on the staff who dealt with, supposedly, the loss of…

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Jul 14, 2014

But that is where we're going because of Obama Care and because of high corporate taxes. It's a double hit.

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Jul 14, 2014

You cut corporate tax rates, and raise the value of the dollar about 10 percent; lower tax rates, stronger dollar, you can raise this growth rate and it can happen overnight.

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Jul 14, 2014

The responsibility for this disappointing economy now lies squarely on this President. The excuse box is empty.

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Jul 14, 2014

We need to roll back the damaging economic policies that the Obama White House has inflicted on the American people.

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Jul 14, 2014

For most Americans, income growth has flat-lined.

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Jul 14, 2014

Since the recession officially ended, real after-tax income has edged up by only 4.4 percent a person.

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Jul 14, 2014

I think the OECD average is about 25 percent. That's where I would go, but I would go lower than that just to make America more competitive.

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Jul 14, 2014

The Federal Reserve is ending its monetary stimulus in terms of bond buying. They are getting out of the bond business. This is good.

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Jul 14, 2014

I would recommend a 20 percent corporate tax rate, which would put us about on par with Great Britain.

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Jul 14, 2014

So far, due to President Obama's Growth Gap, our economy is missing $1.6 trillion in real GDP compared with the average of other recoveries since 1960.

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Jul 14, 2014

Yes, this was the Reagan prescription. Yes, this was the John F. Kennedy prescription.

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Jul 14, 2014

I think the Taylor Rule would be better for the Fed.

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Jul 14, 2014

I would like to abolish the corporate tax in its entirety.

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Jul 14, 2014

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates too low for too long.

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Jul 14, 2014

If you took a look at the last 10 years of federal regulation, out of every 1,000 federal regulations only 3 had a cost/benefit analysis done prior to its imposition.

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Jul 14, 2014

I do not see any bubbles right now.

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Jul 14, 2014

I am strongly in favor of abolishing the ExIm Bank and all other forms of corporate welfare.

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Jul 14, 2014

We need to return to the proven free market principles that built the most prosperous country on the planet.

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Jul 14, 2014

Slash the corporate tax rate. Advertise it. Talk about it, and slash it.

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Jul 14, 2014

I think the widening of eligibility under Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama has created incentives not to work.

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Jul 14, 2014

I believe that the government spending stimulus from the Federal Government, and the monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve, failed.

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Jul 14, 2014

Despite a near trillion dollar fiscal stimulus package, $5.8 trillion in federal deficit spending, and a massive ongoing stimulus by the Federal Reserve, this recovery--while economic conditions have improved--is disappointing by all…

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