On the recordMarch 26, 1996
I think we need to expound on this point a little bit more. Nobody here is interested in raising taxes per se. This is not about taxes, it is about the Constitution of the United States and having a workable system of government. The examples which you cited, which I think it is important for us to be mindful of, have to do with all manner of different reform proposals. Certainly any of the tax simplification or tax reform proposals that this Congress has adopted in the last 20 years or that are pending before us in various forms now, have almost invariably involved some change in the tax base or change in the rate in order to effect reductions or reforms somewhere else, have they not?
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