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...Trent Lott and Denny Hastert's placard, meanwhile, said "Tax Relief for Everyone," and the pair leaned heavily on Bush's "the average working family gets $1,600" pitch. The plan, of course, has something for every conservative Republican - across-the-board cuts for the tax-code ideologues, marriage-penalty reductions and per-child and charitable expansions for the social conservatives - and Hastert and Lott seem quite content to pass the thing...
...shorts and skirts that show my stomach," says Tonya Rodriguez, an eighth-grader at Seven Springs Middle School in New Port Richey, Fla. "I have a really flat stomach, and I like it." Her principal, Roni Sushko, isn't quite so charmed. She has cited Tonya, 13, for dress-code violations eight times since the beginning of the school year, suspending her on two of those occasions. Tonya's infractions include wearing miniskirts and spaghetti-strap tops, which run afoul of regulations that the school's county instituted last year. The new code specifies that all skirts and shorts must...
...Broder himself says, "Admittedly, this is not long-term or comprehensive tax reform. It does not address any of the inequities or loopholes in the internal revenue code...
...Darn right. Tax reform - and tax-code simplification, which could be the best way to reignite the kind of civic optimism central to good democracy - has a broad and strong constituency too. But momentum for it comes around once in a blue moon, usually when it comes time to cut taxes. Which...
...could be over by summer - that's the Fed's job - but to reset the federal government's expectations of how much its constituents should be forking over every April. And to cut some of the fat out of the two flabbiest documents in the free world: the tax code and the federal budget...