And residents or u. S. Interests, those interests are clearly impacted by the behavior of other countries. And the u. S. Tax base can be eroded not only by the behaviors of multinationals but by behavior of other governments. Thank you and thank you for the opportunity. Good to be here, don, thank you very much for this opportunity to speak about policy and reform. It seems to me ive seen this movie before, however. We all love to sit around and talk about policy. I will get to policy in a second. Let me just say while we talk about policy, our tax system is being slowly eroded at the level of administration. Doesnt matter what the rules are if you dont have people to enforce them. If you just take a wink, a quick look at whats happening to the intern Internal Revenue service, you would realize it doesnt matter what the rules are. Weve lost so many people the enforcement capability is diminished. Unless that gets rectified. Who cares about tax reform if we dont have a tax system. Sayin
Make quickly is on the difference between the political and the legal and constitutional questions that were facing. I mean, the political agreement is a political agreement. Its not a constitution, as youve highlighted, there was a fiveyear term for the president. But in afghanistan, the reality is that people are often getting bogged down in whats legal and whats constitutional versus whats politically practical. And i think the latter is much more important to keep in mind in terms of finding solutions. Im going to take that as a comment rather than a question, but thank you for sharing. You want a Quick Response . Quickly. I knew i would face flack for that comment, and i appreciate all the arguments that omar has made and that youve made. But i still think its irresponsible not to raise this point. Its not an issue of its only related to afghanistan, but the idea of trying to recreate a political order based on the rule of law which you know will be violated right off the bat beca
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