Informal Exchange With Reporters
10/30/1988
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Our tax code has become in a fundamental sense un-American, and I mean that as a serious, moral, and economic assertion.
More than two-thirds of our people who don't deduct, who don't itemize on their bills, they get no benefit from that deduction at all.
We can't just shove everything aside and say only the budget and the tax plan are all we're talking about.
This is a time to forget the 1986 election and partisan differences, that we've got a job to do.