Bill Archer

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.

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

If you do [away with the alternative minimum tax], you will do a service for the country.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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.

Do not include any retroactive provision in your tax reform.

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

this bill is very straightforward and simple, and I would like to congratulate the gentleman from Kentucky, Congressman Fletcher, for all his work on this bill. This bill would direct approximately 90% of the total budget surplus toward…

Mr. Speaker, today we make one last attempt to end the marriage tax penalty for 25 million married couples. Since 1995, a growing bipartisan majority in the Congress has tried time and time again to end this gross unfairness in the Tax…

If this bill does not pass, the FSC provisions that have been railed against by the opponents will continue to be in the law. None of that will change. What they call a subsidy, which is actually a reduction of the impediment of double…

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Mr. Speaker, today we continue our commitment to end the death tax that haunts American families, farms and businesses. Today, we try to break the logjam created by yet another veto by a President who is determined to stonewall bipartisan…

Mr. Speaker, today we have a final chance to save family farms and small businesses that will be sacrificed to pay the unfair death tax. This vote is about whether or not we stop the Federal government from confiscating farms and…

Mr. Speaker, I am sure that my friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. Stark) did not mean to mislead, but the words that he spoke were not accurate. The monies that are currently going into the Medicare Trust Fund are from general…