This is a national conversation in the context of a presidential election. Like many controversial ideas that spring from hard-charging House conservatives, it probably cannot pass in the House, let alone the Senate. In the crusade for a new tax code, they are prominently missing. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., has said taxes would be an issue for 1998, but he did not frame the issue in the same lofty terms as his House counterparts. So I think we could never quit trying to make the tax code fairer and reduce it where we can.
Nobody here seems to know what they want to cook just yet.
Gingrich insists the Senate is on board, but his list of tax revolutionaries is notably devoid of top Senate leaders. But when asked his priorities for 1998, Mack, the GOP conference chairman, ticked off social issues, led by education. But it will. All rights reserved. All Rights Reserved.