Paul Ryan: “We are here to talk about tax reform. We are here to talk about, can we have a better way of raising revenue for the…”

“We are here to talk about tax reform. We are here to talk about, can we have a better way of raising revenue for the government without doing so much harm and damage to our economy, to the daily lives of individuals and to the businesses and job creation in this economy. The point that I want to make here today, the reason we need to reform our Tax Code is not just to make it easier for people to keep more of the money they earn, but to make it simpler, to make our Tax Code less punitive. Let us take it for a fact, the Tax Code punishes all the qualities that make America great. It penalizes us if we get married, it penalizes us if we want to have kids, it penalizes us if we have a small business, it penalizes us if we save, it penalizes us if we invest, it penalizes us the more we work and the more successful we become. These are things we should not be penalizing in this country; we should be rewarding those things in America.”