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To: michael97123 who wrote (29486)	2/14/2004 7:46:49 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793926

I agree with you that there was little Bush could have done to cushion the burst bubble and what he did was not terrible. But he could have done a heck of a lot more and missed a huge opportunity. I disagree strongly with the way the tax cuts were done. There was no need for tax cuts at the high end. Instead, he should have addressed the two key problems in America today: the lack of national health care, and tort reform, in conjunction with introducing a national value added tax to pay for the war and national health care. These measures are related and, if addressed, they will solve the key competitive disadvantages of the US versus other industrialized countries, and the US will fly. He could have done it after 9/11. The country was ready for radical steps. Instead he wasted his huge political capital on the worthless Iraq war -- to say nothing of the lives and treasure lost. I was against the Vietnam war starting around 1968.