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Flatter -- what are you saying? >> fairer, flatter and simpler. >> okay. >> what the american people demand of us. you want me to address the reagan tax cuts? >> address anything you want. reagan tax cuts, do uk tax cuts. address why trickle-down economics didnt work in kansas. given you so many to specific answer and you keep saying fairer, flatter simpler. where do i take this discussion with you? i dont know what to do anymore. >> when we talk about the reagan tax cuts i can tell you another ...

Thats not what this is. >> when it happened with reagan, taxes were a salient issue in the country. fewer and fewer people pay the income tax. 75% of americans pay more in payroll taxes than they do in the income tax. the brackets are much lower than they were when reagan did this. inflation is much lower so we dont have bracket creep flowing people higher and higher into brackets. chairman bradys a wonderful intelligent legislator but it is preposterous to say this nibbling around at the edges ...

70,000 page tax code. the tax code is littered with circumstances were special people and special interests and those with special access to members of congress get treatment that everyday americans dont cut. thats why im proud that president trump and speaker ryan want to have a tax code thats fair and simple and works for all americans. it would seem ludicrous to leave in the tax code special treatment for professional sports leagues when they are not out there shutting down behavior that is n...

70,000 page tax code. the tax code is littered with circumstances were special people and special interests and those with special access to members of congress get treatment that everyday americans dont cut. thats why im proud that president trump and speaker ryan want to have a tax code thats fair and simple and works for all americans. it would seem ludicrous to leave in the tax code special treatment for professional sports leagues when they are not out there shutting down behavior that is n...

No bill drafted. theres no law about to be voted on. ill tell you this. the president of the united states is pushing on congress to insure that theres not a real windfall for the wealthy. that the real growth that comes as a consequence of this tax cut will be felt in the paychecks and rising wages and enhanced opportunities for regular people in this country who just want to follow the rules. you know, regular folks dont need a 70,000 page tax code. that exists for the special interests and th...

On in government for too long. there is no accountability. >> the house passed a -- the house has a resolution to impeach the commissioner of the irs. what do you think about that? >> unfortunately i think it is a meaningless gesture because until and unless we cut the irs down to size, its sort of like when the head of the v.a. was fired. you know, the head of the v.a. was fired. there were all those dramatic hearings. a bill was passed that said we could fire the top 400 senior executives of t...

Make it three pages. because guess what. when you have a big costly complicated government. only the big, the powerful, wealthy and well connected can deal with it. its called crony capitalism. it is why we just reduce the size of government. so, we have to get small businesses up and growing again. to do so, we just reduce the power, the scope, the complexity of government. >> what would you do about taxes? are you going to cut corporate taxes? are you going to cut taxes on the higher income pe...

Safety. greg: it doesnt matter how you characterize it, they are going to get blamed for trying to protect. whether it is for protecting the rates or loopholes. >> i think that is what they are wrestling over right now. i also think the conservative vision is saying that it is simpler and flatter tax code that benefits everyone. and making that argument in a competent way, saying that if you dont have these fat cats who can pay for no tax liability and have these great lawyers, but not to benefi...