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and matthew gardner is with the institute on taxation and economic policy. thank you for joining us. i want to start with you, mr. palmerlo. has there been any tax reform since the 2017 tax reform that president trump got through? kyle: reform, of course, is not an easy word to define. but no, there hasn't been any major reform since the 2017 tax are torn -- reform proposal. there have been a lot of tax policies that have changed since then. the latest in the most significant has been during the covid-19 pandemic and the economic response during that period. lawmakers used the tax code to respond to the economic downturn whether that was expanding the losses businesses could deduct on taxable income or sending economic impact payments or expanding the child tax credit for individuals. host: and were those important or significant positive steps? kyle: those were temporary, so it is not as though -- i would not categorize them as a move towards another tax code. the economic impact payment, those were important to provide temporary relief to households in the

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gardner, are you in support of those minimum taxes? matthew the mansion-cinema front, you're describing there is a basic disconnect between the two of them. kyrsten sinema says she is ok with us less aggressive surtax at the top. joe manchin said he is ok with undoing -- [indiscernible] which is great. but we need to be much more aggressive. i think kyle and i agree on the point that could pick a way of reforming the tax code, the minimum tax we have a corporate income tax. no matter how many legal tax breaks you claim, you can't get the effective tax break. this is by the time it was repealed. having said that, as i mentioned discussing the 2017 cuts, there is a more organic systemic discussion of evaluating tax breaks that we should be having. the choice to do a minimum tax, an acknowledgment that we cannot or won't go into the tax code. look at every single tax break and ask if it's working, and get rid of it if it's not. that's what we ought to be doing. in the real world, we have this system that is governed by money where there is much g

administration tax policies and alternative route -- proposals with the american enterprise institute and matthew gardnerwith the american taxation economic policy. we discussed the changing balance between autocracies and democracies. watch live seven eastern tuesday morning or on c-span now the free mobile app, join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text, tweets. announcer: c-span is your unfiltered view of government. funded by these television companies and more, including comcast. >> you thought this was just a community center? no, it is way more than that. >> comcast is partnering with 1,000 community centers to create wi-fi enabled centers for students of low income families to get them ready for anything.