The tax code — with Amity Schlaes (1999) | THINK TANK

Original air date: April 12, 1999

The tax code is too complicated. Americans are overcharged by the federal government because of all the confusion and uncertainty. What are possible alternatives? Is government spending too much?

Host:
Ben Wattenberg — senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Panelists:
Amity Schlaes — Wall Street Journal, author of The Greedy Hand
Gene Steuerle — senior fellow at the Urban Institute, co-author of The Government We Deserve
Sheldon Cohen — former chief counsel and Commissioner of the IRS under LBJ, partner in the firm of Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius

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