Mike Lee actually said...

It's a disingenuous claim that's used as justification for pursuing historic expansion of federal spending.

My Democrat colleagues don't seem to care about the cost to small business.

By all means we should debate whether some of these tax expenditures, such as the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction ought to exist.

If this isn't evidence of an overwhelmingly progressive federal tax system currently in place, I don't know what would be.