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About simplification and complexity. So those are three issues, therefore. The base, the rate and complexity simplification. On the off chance that theres an impressionable staffer from the ways and Means Committee here, what might the four of you, and i really would like to get all four of you opinion on this like him or her, staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say, chief this is what we might accomplish in this congress. Ill start with that one. Well go left to right. First thing is forget what can be accomplished. Lets do that second. First thing to take back is the lesson that only people pay taxes. Corporations are fctional entities. Second then, the ideal rate, and i use the word rate, is zero. Thats the ideal rate. What do you take back to this congress . I think what you can get done is the narrative were not competitive wither trading partners and that to be competitive we should be at or equal to. The rate ....
Here, what might the four of you, and i really would like to get all four of you opinion on this like him or her, staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say, chief this is what we might accomplish in this congress. Ill start with that one. Well go left to right. First thing is forget what can be accomplished. Lets do that second. First thing to take back is the lesson that only people pay taxes. Corporations are fctional entities. Second then, the ideal rate, and i use the word rate, is zero. Thats the ideal rate. What do you take back to this congress . I think what you can get done is the narrative were not competitive wither trading partners and that to be competitive we should be at or equal to. The rate should be no higher than 25 . And that is still higher than id like but at least that gets you to saying were not being competitive by being around their average. Were not higher, lower or average. That seems to be a narrative i wound send. Im going to disagree in one sm ....
c-span: why did you do this? guest: i did it because i am a reader of biography, and i whenever i m reading biography, i love the parts about family and i love the letters. and i had read a collection of a n. c. wyeth s letters andnd r theodore roosevelt s letters.c and when i had my own children,l it was a book that i wanted to read. thought, oh, i wonder what other great americans have written to their children, and i wanted to read those letters and ito couldn t find it. and at first, i wanted my fathe to do the book. fs my father is the historian david mccullough.myf mcd i thought that it was a good book for him to do because i wanted to read it. tha and he loved the idea.. but i realized after a while he thought it was a terrificizea e ea, but he wasn t going to do it. so i went to work on it myself. c-span: how did you do it? guest: i first began byt compiling a big list of great americans, hundreds of people. a great list of compiling a lit of hundreds ....