An extensive discussion of tax reform is likely to take place over the next couple of years because it’s necessary and long overdue and because both political parties have things they hope to get out of it. Taken together, these suggest that something might actually happen.

Thats the premise of my new book, “The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform Why We Need It and What It Will Take” (published today by Simon & Schuster).

Like many inside-Washington policy debates, much of that involving tax reform is unintelligible except to those who understand the jargon, players, history and unstated assumptions that underlie it. For t

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