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...largely of aging clerics and politicians, has one less card to play. The veterans have little relevance for an increasingly young population that barely remembers the war and is instead angry about unemployment and corruption?and seemingly consumed with testing the limits of a strictly enforced religious dress code without getting busted...
...about “a simpler, fairer, pro-growth” tax system. And he promises to do it a “bipartisan” manner—appointing a panel of experts and economists who will advise his Treasury Secretary about bold new options for revamping the code in a revenue-neutral way (remember, after all, there is that pesky deficit...
...good, right? Who doesn’t like bipartisanship? And why shouldn’t we trust a bunch of economists to rewrite the code...
...regardless of these broader matters, there is also that little inconvenient fact that this administration already has a pretty good idea of how it would like to change the system. Streamlining the code was once a pet project of Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill—that is, of course, before he was canned. The Bush-Cheney campaign—or more likely that wily Karl Rove—just doesn’t feel like talking about...
...course, will anyone fall for it? After all, this is the same president who allowed oil tycoons to create his energy policy. And now we are to believe—on faith alone—that when Bush sits down to rewrite the tax code, the only interests on his mind will be the average “folks” he’s met on the trail...