Robert Packwood: “Let me ask my good friend from Missouri a question then because this amendment really falls, in my mind, into three…”

Tax reform, if it's done correctly, should promote growth and significantly reduce economic distortions that are present under the current income tax system.

Taxpayers and businesses spend over six billion hours a year complying with tax-filing requirements.

I have often thought to myself, what kind of a deal could be made between the Republicans and the Democrats that would result in some increased revenue?

Well, that is why this committee--at least in Bill's and my era, there was much more nonpartisanship in the Senate than there apparently is today.