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...important component of tax reform. Traditionally we thought of tax reform as, Let's go from here to there, cold turkey. You can do it in incremental steps. But the Administration is doing the candy part of tax reform, not doing the vegetable part. You are getting rid of the various forms of double taxation, which everyone affected will be happy about, but you are not putting fringe benefits in the tax base, an enormous issue not only for tax-reform policy but also for health-care policy...
Unfortunately for Stu, a psychopath has bugged that phone booth and listens to the conversations of all who use it. And, in an effort to rid the world of depravity, he’s decided to kill the immoral people he hears using that phone (think Seven...
...signatories, eight now hold senior positions in the Bush Administration. But high office in itself was not enough. If they were to rid the world of Saddam and his weapons, they would have to bring on board one influential conservative whose name wasn't on the letter--who at the time was in thought and deed far removed from the Washington policy village. That person was Dick Cheney, who had good reasons to contest the view that the end of Gulf War I had been mishandled--because he was one of those who ended...
...Cheney wasn't entirely in Powell's camp. In fact, in his taciturn, deliberate way, Cheney was starting to go through a shift in his intellectual bearings. "Dick Cheney," says Wolfowitz, "is someone whose view of the need to get rid of Saddam Hussein was transformed by Sept. 11--by the recognition of the danger posed by the connection between terrorists and WMDs and by the growing evidence of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda." After Sept. 11, Cheney began running a self-education seminar on Islam and the Middle East, meeting with experts, a Cheney aide says, "to discuss...
This time around, there has been far less scope for miscalculation. The younger Bush has been nothing if not clear about his intention to get rid of Saddam. The dream in Washington was that once Iraq's leader was convinced of certain defeat, he would depart to stay alive. But among those who knew him, exile did not seem an option. Saddam's Arab honor would not permit him to flee. "He follows the code of the old-time Arab knights," says Toujan Faisal, a former Jordanian member of parliament. There are less romantic explanations as well. As head...