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The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.