People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.