Bush Connections To The ACCF Directors and Staff

January 16, 2002

David Duncan, the recently fired head of the Enron Account for Arthur Anderson was a director of ACCF (American Council for Capital Formation), a conservative think tank in Washington.

Look who else was a director...

Hon. Kenneth M. Duberstein, former Chief of Staff to President Reagan

David B. Duncan, Partner, Arthur Andersen LLP

Dr. Kenneth L. Lay, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Enron Corp.

Hon. George P. Shultz, former Secretary of State

Hon. John C. Whitehead, former Deputy Secretary of State

as well as former directors

Paul H. O’Neill, chairman of Alcoa from 1987 to present and a former director of the ACCF, is Secretary-designate of the Treasury.

Andrew H. Card, Jr., former Secretary of Transportation and an ACCF director since 1997, is chief of staff to President-elect George W. Bush.

Throughout the past year, the ACCF made the case before policymakers in Congress and the Administration and opinion shapers in the media and the private sector for pro-growth tax policy initiatives for individuals and businesses.

For individuals, those initiatives included elimination of the estate tax, reform of the private pension system (including an increase in Individual Retirement Accounts), and reductions in individual capital gains tax rates.

For business, the pro-growth agenda included measures to reduce the cost of capital for new investment (including investments that promote environmental goals), repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax, a cost-effective approach to climate mitigation, and a reduction in the corporate capital gains tax rate.

http://www.accf.org/Mission.htm#anchor460290

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Contributed by BuzzFlash Reader William Garcia