He answers with proposals for restructuring the tax code to attract businesses, creating a high-tech corridor in the Albuquerque area and promoting charter and magnet schools.
It was two years ago this month that the tax policy group began work on the Treasury's original plan for restructuring the tax code.
Mr. De la Rúa took office 15 months ago promising to re-ignite the economy by bringing down interest rates, by increasing investment through tax increases and cutbacks in government programs and by restructuring the labor code.
The expected revamp in White House operations comes at a key juncture in Trump's presidency, as his job-approval ratings continue to sag and he presses for progress on several marquee campaign promises — including revamping the Affordable Care Act and restructuring the tax code — before Congress takes its August recess.
Though Trump claimed at Thursday's news conference that there is "zero chaos" in his White House, he acknowledged that Priebus is spending time "putting out fires" that he would rather spend working on administration priorities, such as replacing the Affordable Care Act and restructuring the tax code.
Conservative rhetoric is stuck in fantasy, opposed to any tax increase at any time, while lacking the conviction to propose privatising Social Security and Medicare.By taming inflation, restructuring the tax code, and thinning regulatory undergrowth, Reagan made the welfare state sustainable, something liberals had proved unable to do.
Restructuring the tax code is an unpopular idea among those who don't want to see the rich pay less.
Bachmann says that she's open to having a debate on restructuring the tax code, and thus eliminating corporate taxes altogether.
Kemp supported restructuring the tax code because he really believed a rising tide lifts all boats -- and that it was the lifting of all boats, not just the idea of lower tax rates, that drove his policy ideas.
While he reiterated the need for comprehensive tax reform, the senator acknowledged that he did not think restructuring the tax code would be possible before the end of this year, when the Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire.
