dr. marron. mr. brill, you're recognized. >> thank you very much, chairman tiberi, congressman thompson and members of the subcommittee for the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the regularly expiring tax provisions commonly known as tax extenders. i believe today's hearing is on an important topic as the number of and budgetary magnitude of these regularly expiring tax provisions have ballooned in recent years. some of these policies can serve an appropriate goal, but many have crept into the tax code with little evaluation. for example, in 2001 13 tax provisions were set to expire that year or the next year. a decade later 129 tax provisions were set to expire in 2011 or 2012. the budgetary consequences extenders has increased as well. for example, in september of 2004 congress enacted a one-year extension of 23 tax extenders for a cost of $13 billion. in 2010 a two-year extension of these policies costs over $55 billion. and if congress were to extend those policies again this year, the

dr. marron, you have five minutes. >> thank you. chairman tiberi, ranking member thompson, members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to appear today to discuss the breeding challenge of the tax extenders which might be better called attacks expire worse. as you know that united states faces a sharp fiscal cliff at year end when numerous policy changes occur. if all these changes happen they will reduce fiscal 2013 deficit by about $500 billion according to congressional budget office. before taking into account any negative feedback from a we the economy. about one-eighth of that cliff, $65 billion, comes from the expiring and expired tax cuts that are the focus of today's hearing. in deciding their fate you should consider the larger problems facing our tax system. assistant is needed -- need is a complex, harmful and widely perceived as unfair. is increasing unpredictable, and it fails in both its basic task. they expire or's often worsened the contradictory uncertainty, gay compliance and cause him to read some of th

dr. marron. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member thompson, members of the committee, to discuss the tax extenders. i believe this hearing is on an important topic, as there are a number of budgetary magnitudes. these have ballooned in recent years. some of these policies can serve an appropriate goal, but many have cracked -- crept into the tax code. in 2001, 13 tax provisions were set to expire that your or the next year. one decade later, 129 tax provisions were set to expire in 2011 or 2012. the budgetary consequences of the extenders has increased as well. for example, in september 2004, congress enacted a one-year extension of 23 tax extenders for a cost of $13 billion. in 2010, a two-year extension cost over $55 billion, and if congress were to extend those policies again this year, the cost would be even higher. let me summarize three key conclusions from my written testimony. first, no tax policy should be intentionally temporary. any tax extenders deemed appropriate, should be deemed permanent, and