Bill Archer: “I think we all ought to recognize, though, they acted only because we had such a strong vote last week on this issue…”

Do not include any retroactive provision in your tax reform.

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

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.

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