Reforming the tax code is always a Herculean task, but the same strategy of principled bipartisanship can work again today.
If there's one obvious similarity between 1986 and today, it's that people are quick to say tax reform is impossible.
If you could just reduce the difference between the way income from capital and the income from wages are treated, that would be a huge refo...
Congress and President Reagan came together to pass the 1986 Tax Reform Act based on what I call principled bipartisanship.
The two of you have told an inspiring story this morning about bipartisanship on a major economic issue.
There has to be a way to help the middle class who are hurting, like that auto worker, and get people out from under the bureaucratic water ...
The fact is, too many middle-class Oregonians are hurting.
To me, there are sort of three entrants in the discussion.
Our job is to put America's middle class on solid economic ground, lift wages, and make sure that everybody benefits when the economy grows.
Those kind of efforts, particularly in terms of education, they are absolutely key to repairing this pretty tattered ladder of opportunity.
Let us work for that.