While much of the country was fix-ated on President George W. Bush's Supreme Court pick, a group of Bush appointees was meeting deep in the bowels of a Washington hotel with a task nearly as challenging as reshaping the Court. Their job: finding ways to make the U.S. tax laws fairer, simpler, and more pro-growth. The nine-member panel, which is due to make its recommendations to the Bush Administration by Sept. 30, has been hearing witnesses for months. But on July 20, it began debating the knotty questions of how to overhaul the tax code and how Uncle Sam should collect $2 trillion a year from American workers, investors, and businesses.
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