CSPAN2 Senate Finance Committee Explores Tax Reform Challenges July 19, 2017
The committee will come to order. Welcome to our first hearing of the day. We discussed the ongoing effort to reform our tax code. We have a distinguished panel of experts to help shed some light on the issues surrounding tax reform. I look forward to a productive discussion and appreciate your attendance. In 1984 resident reagan called for reform of the tax code. He laid out three main goals for tax reform. Fairness, efficiency and simplicity. Those three goals are as relevant today as they were a generation ago. American competitiveness is essential in todays Global Economy we must consider ...