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« Redneck goes high-tech | Main | Scary Bedtime Stories » November 17, 2004Chuck Grassley, Thanks For Your "Effort"I know the Founders designed the Senate as a cold wet towel to cover the red-hot populist ideas that come over from the House of Representatives. But would the Boston Tea Partiers approve of a Senate that seems intent on treating the tax code as sacred text? Senator Chuck Grassley appears to have received his talking points from the tax lobbyists on K Street. From the USA Today:
Grassley complains that Bush didn't do enough to sell the idea of tax reform during the campaign. Oh c'mon. He talked about it right after terrorism. Plus how much does the President have to sell the American taxpayer on the notion that the tax code is harder to crack than any German or Japanese code during WWII? People are flocking to tax preparers more and more; they know that something has to be done. Senator Chuck, you just don't want to do the heavy lifting. Posted by PunchTheBag at November 17, 2004 01:08 PM CommentsBush made a few vague references to "tax reform" during his campaign. I do not know any people anywhere who voted for or against Bush on his tax reform plan. Why? Because he does not have one. Tax cuts have been the only thing he has persistently expressed. His actual idea of what tax reform is went unexpressed. It seems like shrewd politics to me if one will hold out until serious proposals are on the table. That deficit spending thing might be something to deal with first before a major change in sources of revenue is dealt. I could be wrong. Bush might have campaigned on a specific tax reform proposal, but it doesn't seem to exist in the public post-election consciousness. Time to change this. Posted by: Reality at November 17, 2004 10:52 PM | permalink Mr. Bush does not mind roaming around in the china shop much like a bull in heat. Consider the Middle East-five decades of policy failure albeit of either party were smashed with his new mold of doing something different. Posted by: Anonymous at November 18, 2004 07:52 PM | permalink |
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