Michael Burgess actually said...

"It seems like we could do this if we just had the political will to take it."

"I think that there is a lot of the American electorate, a lot of the American people, feel that simplifying the tax system should be one of our highest priorities."

"My personal feeling is the Tax Code is not the proper means for achieving those."

"If we cared about asthmatics, if we weren't conducting a war on asthmatics, we would allow this to happen."