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...making long-term planning difficult. The Administration would like to make IRS budgets cover a longer time period. Summers said the administration "will work to simplify the tax code" but did not provide details. Details, of course are what Republicans are only too happy to provide. According to Dick Armey, Americans spend 5.4 billion hours a year complying with the tax code, more than is spent building every car, truck and van in the U.S. Rather than upgrade the computer system to deal with a complicated tax structure, the GOP says that the government should simplify the existing code...
...Here, my ethnicity is so important, like I'm supposed to express it all the time or something. People will say, 'We need you, we need a Hispanic here,' but when I worked for [House Majority Leader] Dick Armey's office this summer, I never felt like I was out of place even though I was the only Hispanic," he says...
...proposal as a budget buster, have raised questions about administering the Hope Scholarships. Will parents append college transcripts to their tax returns? Submit drug tests? Is a B from State U. on a par with a Harvard B? And what about grades K through 12? G.O.P. majority leader Dick Armey said last week, "I want to make sure that the President's program doesn't subsidize two years of remedial learning for what should have been learned in the first 12 years." But such remarks from the party that recently wanted to abolish the Department of Education are the best...
...Dick Armey likes to say that his first waking thought is how to make the day unbearable for Democrats. So when you hear the House majority leader fairly purring about one of them--particularly one who happens to be the new White House budget chief--it's time to wonder: Has the thawing of partisan hatred begun? Is progress in the air? Or is someone about to get rolled...
...Democrat in question is Frank Raines, 48, who is, as Armey sweetly puts it, "a serious guy who understands what needs to be done and is going to do his level best to do it. He is a man who strikes me as not having a lot of guile, and in a Democrat that's refreshing." Across Capitol Hill the reviews by other Republicans are just as glowing. "It's obvious he tries very hard to understand our side," says Pete Domenici, the Senate Budget Committee chairman...