05/08/2013
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"the Pentagon could not account for some $2.3 trillion in transactions."
"But the other thing, what we know is when you invest in the IRS--and they can do the audits--we bring in significant amounts of money for every dollar we spend in funding the IRS."
"Hedge fund managers get a tax benefit that the witnesses have already condemned through the carried interest exception, and as a result, in the recent years they have had tax rates that are lower than..."
"Maybe, if we are serious about deficit reduction, rather than cutting Social Security or Medicare, we might want to examine that reality."