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6 67th National Conference and Annual Dinner 1 (2004)

handle is hein.taxfoundation/taxfaabb0006 and id is 1 raw text is: Tax Foundation
Global Tax Reform: Who's Leading, Who's Lagging, and Is the
U.S in the Race?
November 18, 2004
Scott Hodge: Ladies and gentlemen, if you could begin to
take your seats again. Throughout this year's presidential
campaign I think it's safe to say that the President was very
resolute in his desire to overhaul the tax code. But he was
pretty coy in identifying the kind of tax reform plan that he
favored or that he would prefer over the current system. Our
next speakers are anything but shy in expressing the kind of
system that they would replace the current tax code with.
I'm very pleased to have with us this afternoon three
leaders in the tax reform movement: Congressman Phil English
from Pennsylvania, Congressman John Linder from Georgia and the
former Majority Leader Dick Armey. I was very fortunate a few
years ago to spend some time at Citizens for a Sound Economy,
during that period of time in which CSE was sponsoring its
Scrap the Code tour, which barnstormed across the United
States. These were mock debates between Mr. Armey arguing for
the flat tax and Bill Tauzin arguing for the National Retail

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