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It's considered almost impossible to completely change our tax structure. It's easy for the new countries of E Europe or even Ireland but the USA.. nota

He should discuss a general policy on making our economy more competitive world wide. That would make the Dem centralized command and control political hacks nuts.




"Mortgage credit markets aside, the main economic worry in the near term is Congress. The legislative pressure is all on the side of anti-growth policies -- hostility to bilateral free-trade pacts with Latin America and Asia, tax increases on private equity and high incomes, and perhaps a trade slap at China.

President Bush has signaled that he'll veto the worst ideas, including any tax increases or excessive spending. But a President with a 30% approval rating may not be able to stop everything. The best we can probably hope for through the 2008 election is a virtuous gridlock that lets the economic vitality so evident this week continue."