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To: Neocon who wrote (363908)2/26/2003 3:05:04 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
I didn't mean to imply that phasing these preferences out was not the right way to go.

To wean people off of their addiction to subsidies and special preferences... it will have to be incremental.

Some things can be dumped right away... for the immediate beneficial effect. Others (requiring the unwinding of complicated financial structures) should be done with no longer than a 3 to 5 year phase-in period.