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2 67th National Conference and Annual Dinner [i] (2004)

handle is hein.taxfoundation/taxfaabb0002 and id is 1 raw text is: Tax Foundation Global Tax Reform: Who's Leading, Who's Lagging, and Is the U.S in the Race? November 18, 2004 Facilitator - Scott Hodge, President, Tax Foundation: I'll ask our next panelist to come up - Mr. Neneman and Mr. Tvaroska and Mr. O'Loghlin. Introduction (Scott Hodge): The reason I'm so optimistic about tax reform in the United States is really because of the examples being set by the countries represented by our next three speakers - representing Ireland, Poland and Slovakia. I had the fortunate opportunity last summer to visit Poland and the year before that to visit Ireland. And I hope to visit Slovakia this year to see how tax reform is working there. But what I've seen so far in Ireland and Poland is really nothing short of remarkable. On my trip to Poland this year, I talked to a business executive in Warsaw, who told us that he was so enthusiastic about turning his sights away from the East, as the marketplace, mainly the Russian Federation, etc., and turning his sights to the West, towards Germany and France. And he said, with our lower taxes and our cost structure, we are going