Bob Dole

Debating their tax-reform plan first proposed in 1981, Hoover Institution’s Robert E. Hall and Alvin Rabushka write, “it is perverse to tax the typical American to subsidize these elite institutions,” referring to nonprofits favored by the wealthy. “But granting tax deductions for gifts is precisely such a subsidy.”

“I could hear them as if it were yesterday. I can hear the voices.”