Ex-Governors, CEOs Among 13 Named by GOP to Study Flat Tax

Former governors, corporate chief executives and a former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service were among the 13 people appointed to a Republican tax reform commission Wednesday.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) named the commission members to “examine overhauling the tax system to make it flatter, fairer and simpler.”

They had earlier announced that former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp would serve as chairman of the commission, which is expected to issue its findings by October, in time to make them an issue in the 1996 GOP presidential primaries.

Joining Kemp on the panel will be Loretta Adams, president of Market Development Inc. of San Diego; Ken Blackwell, Ohio state treasurer; Herman Cain, chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza; Carroll A. Campbell Jr., former governor of South Carolina; Pierre S. (Pete) du Pont IV, former governor of Delaware; Jack Faris, president of the National Federation of Independent Business; Ed Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation; Matt Fong, California state treasurer; Ted Forstmann, partner in Forstmann-Little; Dean Kleckner, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Shirley Peterson, former IRS commissioner; John Snow, chief executive of CSX Corp., and John Weiland, president of Weiland Homes Inc.