Honeywell Chairman and CEO Dave Cote received the Distinguished Service Award from the Tax Foundation at its 74th Annual Dinner held in Washington, D.C.
The Tax Foundation is a nonpartisan research organization that has monitored fiscal policy at the federal, state, and local levels since 1937. Since 1941, the Tax Foundation has awarded the Distinguished Service Award to a wide range of tax professionals, elected officials, and business leaders, including Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA), Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Cote, a member of President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, has been an advocate of an American Competitiveness agenda that would alleviate the national deficit and create jobs.
“It’s important for all of us to let our politicians know that we want to compete, that we still know how, and that we just need the tools to do it,” said Cote. “By addressing debt and taxes, energy policy, math and science education, infrastructure, free trade, and tort reform we can have the tools we need to create a dynamic, fair economic environment where our country and our people can continue winning. It’s a question of do we still have the political will to do the hard things required in life? We can do it. We need government to work together and enable it. We just need the tools.”
