Great to see you. Thanks for assembling here locally today. Come to the state department. We ask you here to provide you with some new information on the six year crisis in syria. Im joined today by acting assistant secretary for the bureau of middle Eastern Affairs , stuart jones. Hes recently turned from the talks. Hell give us an update and provide us with newly declassified information on syria today. Last week secretary tillerson met with Russian Foreign minister for more than an hour here in washington. Youve read the readout from that meeting. I like to provide some additional context and details coming out of that meeting today secretary tillerson was firm and clear with the minister. Russia holds tremendous insolence over president assad. A key point that turned in the bilateral meeting was telling russia to use his power to reign in the regime. Complete but, the killing and devastation has gone on for far too long in syria. Minister was clear as well that he shares the same g
Great to see you. Thanks for assembling here locally today. Come to the state department. We ask you here to provide you with some new information on the six year crisis in syria. Im joined today by acting assistant secretary for the bureau of middle Eastern Affairs , stuart jones. Hes recently turned from the talks. Hell give us an update and provide us with newly declassified information on syria today. Last week secretary tillerson met with Russian Foreign minister for more than an hour here in washington. Youve read the readout from that meeting. I like to provide some additional context and details coming out of that meeting today secretary tillerson was firm and clear with the minister. Russia holds tremendous insolence over president assad. A key point that turned in the bilateral meeting was telling russia to use his power to reign in the regime. Complete but, the killing and devastation has gone on for far too long in syria. Minister was clear as well that he shares the same g
There is a chapter in here on federal tax reform and many others also covering the tax treatment of healthcare and global tax competition. I want to introduce Chris Edwards was editor of Debbie Debbie debbie that downsizing. Org. Before joining cato he is a senior columnist on the congressional joint Economic Committee. Thank you for coming here i think some of you may have had to be involved in the president ial motorcade. Im going to provide a brief overview of tax reform janie foster. President trump and republicans are pursuing tax reform. The basic idea is to cut individual and business tax rates to close the loophole and to improve the treatment of savings and investments. What we need tax or from . It can spread Economic Growth which will raise Living Standards for everybody. It can simplify the code and tax reform can also increase fairness by creating more equal treatment between taxpayers. The other reason we need tax reform is because we have not had major tax reform since 1
Good afternoon everybody would i want to welcome you all today i am peter russo, director of affairs at the cato institute. I want to thank you for coming. You are an old briefing of major tax reform in 2017. Before we begin if youre watching via cspan for live stream and would like to join the conversation would love to hear from you. Please to comments and questions to us and our panel at cato events. We released a new policy handbook. They were available as you came in. If you like additional copies please contact me after the program. I will be happy to hook you up. Meanwhile you can go to cato. Org and theres a chapter here and federal tax reform and many others also covering the treatment of healthcare and as well as the importance of global tax competition. With that i introduced chris edwards. He is a top expert on federal tax and budget issues. Before joining us he was on the joint Economic Committee and he was a coauthor of global tax revolution. [applause] thank you. Thank y
Well, good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome you all today. I am peter russo, i am the director of Congressional Affairs at the Cato Institute and i want to thank you all for coming. You were at a capitol Hill Briefing entitled major tax reform in 2017. Before we begin, if youre watching via cspan or the live stream and would like to join the conversation, wed love to hear from you, so please tweet comments and questions to us and our panel at catoevents. Catoevents. This spring the Mercatus Center released this, if youd like additional copies, please contact me after the program, ill be happy to hook you guys up. Mean while, fully searchable pdfs are available at cato. Org. There is a chapter in here on federal tax reform and the tax treatment of health care and as well as the importance of preserving global tax competition. With that i want to introduce catos Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies and editor of www. Governmentdownsizing. Org, before joining cato, senior