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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (25532)	2/1/2008 1:21:00 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: " Well perhaps Bush lost the opportunity, but I don't think someone else as president would have taken advantage of it either...." There is very slim comfort in that statement. He had the very best opportunity we've seen since the Reagan years (arguably far better, since it seems very likely that Bush II could have pushed this through early on if he had only committed, he had a stronger hand to play then Reagan was ever afforded). Instead, he took a 'pass', gave reform up without even trying... and then went on to totally unrealistic Social Security and Medicare 'privatization' schemes ('unrealistic' MAINLY only because he did not put tax reforms first, therefore could not make a solid argument about what the revenue streams of the government would look like over the decades to come... Had tax reform been accorded it's proper primacy he might have been able to achieve some measure of success with the transfer payment programs also). Total failure. Folding his tent without even trying. Abandoning all the efforts of his own tax reform commissions and tax advisers because he did not want to commit to the fight.