Our U.S. senators are launching a
shameful stunt: they're promising each other 50 years of secrecy about their
personal proposals for tax reform, that is, changing or eliminating income tax credits
and deductions.
Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) cooked up this juicy charade as a way of enticing their
fellow senators to make initial suggestions for the Senate Finance
Committee's current work on preparing "reform" of the U.S. income tax
code.
Seems too many senators don't want
to go on the record right up front with their personal choices about which
credits and deductions should be cut, i.e. which special interest group they
plan to ignore in the tax reform process.
This is shameful political
chicanery. If any tax reform legislation is ever brought to a vote, the
Senators are going to have to cast their votes openly to decide which tax
avoidance provisions will be altered or dropped.
Who do they think they're fooling
with this "50-years of secrecy" dodge?
Why do we keep re-electing these
people who act with such disdain for our best interests and our intelligence?
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