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Well, why would they be quicker to pass anything else? So whatever we come up with, you may answer that Congress will wait until the election's over.

Hang on, there's an idea: haven't we read everywhere that this campaign was the most expensive ever? And contributions are almost all from very rich people, so it won't change their consumption patterns. There you have it, money being poured into the economy!

All you need now is to make the election close enough that the campaign costs 2% of GDP.
Of course, if Republicans win, contributors sure will expect to be paid back in policies. But by then, the seven months will be over and Congress may have passed our initial idea. Neat, isn't it?

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 at 10:08:41 AM EST
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I don't know what you're on about with the campaign, but wiping out the 10% bracket with general agreement in Congress is a lot simpler than setting up a massive program to refurbish buildings for energy efficiency.  That's not to say that the idea doesn't have merit, -- it does -- but you're talking about moving an enormous amount of bureaucracy and dealing with all sorts of fights in Congress.  My point is that they need to be pumping money into consumers' hands now, and then move to public works projects.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 at 10:15:22 AM EST
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It seems to me that taxes are already way too low in the US.
Also, tax cuts hit the wrong targets (if you don't have a job you probably don't pay income taxes). And they don't have much of an immediate effect either -it comes with future earnings.

But this guy may explain it better.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 at 10:28:31 AM EST
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