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To: Dale Baker who wrote (8264)	3/13/2004 12:45:34 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

As for IRS clamping down, most of those cases are high profile. Many are those who make money on seminars. There's lots of legal stuff that continues within the rules and lots of marginal ones that just go on because of enforcement issues. I agree with you on the tenor of debate. As to positions on web site or party platform, my feeling is that this stuff never makes it past the election. The republicans put in lots of stuff to placate their religious fanatics and the dems put in stuff that sounds great but doesn't seem to ever go anywhere. I'd like to see real speeches by Kerry saying he's going to make the hard decisions. Simplify the tax code. Specific roll backs. Exclude one time "windfalls" for r/e or business sales. Estate tax but only for those with e.g., more than $10 million. Target charitable foundations. Target generational trusts. Target the underground economy. Cut down drastically on tax shelter oil deals. Cut down drastically on shelters to big farm for inefficient practices and methods that encourage artificial growth and, at the same time, no growth. These are examples, not tough to give and they would be supported. But the problem is that we start to step on the toes of the lobbyists and real super rich who pay the money to the candidates.