[jmc813]

If you have individual ping lists.....please use them to facilitate the widest possible discussion.

As you wish. A ping for some loserdopians and JBT's.

[freeforall]

Just 25 or 27 years ago, the top marginal tax rate in your (I am Canadian) nation was 91%. Many more people paid 70%. Taxes were not indexed to inflation until the mid-1980s; bracket creep was endemic. Now the top marginal rate is under 40%—and will likely be cut further soon—and today taxes are indexed for inflation. Capital gains taxes are lower, too—dropped to 20% in 1996. A whole new round of tax-cutting will be kicking in over the next 7 years. Social Security privatization—also a form of major detaxation—is about to pop up over the political horizon. This, once it gets rolling later in the decade, will be a deregulatory/detaxation move to dwarf most others. It's a much bigger deal than many yet realize. President Bush realizes it, and is relentless in his push for it.