Monday, February 06, 2006

TIME.com -- Joe Klein: A Bush Without Boldness

TIME.com -- Joe Klein: A Bush Without Boldness:
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"A case can be made for targeted tax cuts to encourage socially beneficial behavior like research into alternative cars and fuels. A case can also be made�though Bush would rather see Brokeback Mountain than make it�for targeted tax increases to discourage things like, well, an addiction to oil. But what are we to make of the perennial conservative call for the elimination of the estate tax, which would cost $750 billion over 10 years? Republicans have done a clever bit of marketing here by calling it the death tax."

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