That should be the basic ingredients of tax reform. First it should be fair to taxpayers of this country. The tax bill enacted two years ago was certainly not fair. It failed in that test. As i pointed out, who benefited . Well, large corporations benefited dramatically by this bill, but they said look, well pass it on to the workers. But did they pass it on to the workers . In 2018, 1. 1 trillion were used to repurchase stock to make the wealthiest even wealthier and did not go to the benefit of the workers. It benefited the greatest on the personal income tax side to the highest income taxpayers. They are the ones who benefited the most. It was not fair to middleclass taxpayers. Secondly, a tax reform bill should be fiscally responsible. After all, we have taxes in order to raise revenue, in order to pay for services so we dont borrow from the future for our children and grandchildren to pay for what were doing today. The administration said that this would be a fiscally responsible
Acts 25th anniversary, a panel of government officials and policymakers discuss their role in implementing the legislation. This 80 Minute Program was cohosted by the National Security archive. The carnegie corporation, the Carnegie Endowment and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your attention. We have some real heroes of the implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years of experience, it is one th
Acts 25th anniversary, a panel of government officials and policymakers discuss their role in implementing the legislation. This 80 Minute Program was cohosted by the National Security archive. The carnegie corporation, the Carnegie Endowment and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your attention. We have some real heroes of the implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years of experience, it is one th
Implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years of experience, it is one thing to give a good speech on the senate floor, it is another thing to get a missile silo closed in ukraine. And i hope this panel will help us understand how some of those accomplishments were actually carried out. It is my experience in my reporting that there were hundreds, probably thousands of people involved in this implementation. They are not all here. But in my
Today. I can say on behalf of the entire council we are so. Hrilled to see you we are inspired by the energy you can feel in this room and the Brilliant Ideas that have been circulating through the panels in the hallways. Your presence here today inside this room on such a beautiful california day, the doors are locked by the way, it is a testament to our quality of collective regard for the speaker today. Engerman serves as chair of the departments history. Did work inon history at records roy gardner who is here with us today. Atearned his phd in history the university of california at berkeley where he worked with david oliver. First articles published by Harvard University class in 2003 2 brought a claim. Lauded as original, imagine will be conceived and important, the book of course one of the book award and the Akira International book award. His second book, know your enemy , the rise and fall of america soviet expert was published in 2009 eliminating subjects between academic e