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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Max Baucus moves to reshape tax code
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sen-max-baucus-moves-to-reshape-tax-code/2013/04/08/e7f3435a-9dff-11e2-9a79-eb5280c81c63_story.htmlLast month, Sen. Max Baucus summoned members of the Senate Finance Committee to a closed-door meeting to discuss the first full-scale rewrite of the 5,600-page U.S. tax code in more than 25 years.
The task would be gargantuan, and much of Washington has called it impossible in these contentious times. But after two years of watching President Obama and congressional leaders take on tax policy and other areas of the committees vast jurisdiction, the Montana Democrat who is the panels chairman was ready to reclaim his turf.
Senators arrived in a Finance Committee conference room to find crystal bowls filled with green and white M&Ms imprinted with pictures of President Ronald Reagan, as well as Democratic Rep. Dan Rostenkowski and Republican Sen. Bob Packwood, the committee chairmen who engineered the last tax overhaul, in 1986.
They found a detailed schedule of 10 more meetings, where committee staff members will present option papers for achieving such popular goals as simpler filing rules.
*** the great public option killer is gonna do tax reform.
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Sen. Max Baucus moves to reshape tax code (Original Post)
xchrom
Apr 2013
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Skidmore
(37,364 posts)1. That my first reaction.
My second reaction was that I can't afford M&Ms anymore.
a kennedy
(29,655 posts)2. Oh, the biggest DINO of them all in charge?? NOT. eom
Autumn
(45,058 posts)3. Bend over
cause here it comes