Views on Taxes
Re “GOP Lawmakers Are Counting on Making Taxes Pay in 1998 Agenda,” Dec. 1: Although Ronald Brownstein does not directly quote me as saying “not only does the public cherish many of the deductions it would sweep away,” its placement would suggest this is something I conveyed in my interview with him. I did not. Instead, I said the home mortgage deduction should be protected.
Even more critically, the article quotes me as saying, “Americans remain very comfortable with the notion of progressivity.” I said this only in the context of explaining my support for a two-rate flat tax of 17% and 25%, not in any way to support today’s tax structure.
W.D. McINTURFF
Alexandria, Va.
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