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Baucus and Camp Promise Tax Reform No Time Soon
Reform might have
seemed more likely if the chairmen of the key congressional tax-writing committees hadn't written about it.
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After months of speculation about their progress and intentions, Max Baucus and Dave Camp, the chairmen of the key congressional tax-writing committees, penned an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal committing to tax reform. We'd be more optimistic if they had kept quiet.
For starters, it's rarely a good sign to see a piece claiming something is "very much alive." As Margaret Thatcher put it, "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." If tax reform has a chance, that should be obvious. Completion is very far away if the public still needs to be convinced the process has a pulse.