Bill Archer

Well, clearly the 1986 tax reform took a lot of time to put together, and in the end, it prevailed with some very hard-hitting pressures from the top on both sides.

We have seen this movie before. We do big tax cuts, and then we just pass the bill on to somebody else.

I don't think we can afford to charge our kids and our grandkids with tax cuts that we give out today.

I have always been in opposition to the alternative minimum tax. It made no sense.

I certainly believe that it is desirable to have bipartisanship, particularly on something that is as important as fundamental tax reform.

Can you tell me how cuts to Medicare or Medicaid will help working class people?

The Tax Code has been used by so many people on the outside as a means of making whatever they want to occur happen in the country.

Well, needless to say, for one who continued to do his own tax return, simplification has a lot of appeal to me.

There is no reason why the Tax Code cannot be one that is not forever changing because things are expiring.

Tax reform gives us the opportunity to address these matters, to ease frustrations, and to restore faith and confidence in our tax systems.

Do not include any retroactive provision in your tax reform.

In my opinion, it is not enough to achieve tax parity with the rest of the world.

I commend the efforts of the Committee and particularly Chairman Brady for taking the lead to advance the indisputable goal of simplifying the Code.

I pray that you will be allowed to rise to the occasion and complete the long-delayed goal of fundamental tax reform.

Thank you for that welcome, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for the job you are doing on tax reform.

The subject of education spending is high on the minds of many.

The facts are that the current law already gives incentives to overcome the double taxation that our corporations face competing overseas, and this replaces that in the code. It does not cost $5 billion. He knows that. If there is such…

Mr. Speaker, my friend from Georgia has not read the entire agreement or read the 1979 agreement between the Chinese and the U.S., obviously, because what he said is not valid. There are many things in this agreement which are not included…

I would add, for the gentleman, because I know others will be concerned about this, that we have not extended this to any personnel that stayed domestically located in the United States of America because we, in this legislation, do not…

Mr. Speaker, as a brief response, I would say if the gentleman's logic is correct today, it was more correct last year, because the amount of the tax bill last year was bigger than the amount of the tax bill this year. It required…

Not one penny of the money for this tax cut will be taken from the Social Security trust fund. Please, let us get off that and talk about the merits of this tax bill.

On the statement made by the gentleman from New York, I am not sure where he got what he presented to the House, but we received what we presented to the House off of C-Span. Therefore, it was not in violation of the rules.

I think it is important, number one, that we have terminology that fits the facts, as the gentleman has said. What has been called MFN or most-favored-nation actually merely means normal trading relations. Toward the end of the conference…

Members of this Congress should know that the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) led the fight for shifting the burden of proof, and it was because of the gentleman that I put it in the bill in the Committee on Ways and Means. It was not…