If anything, the Republican proposals are but a small down payment on genuine relief and simplification.
Last year, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) proposed the Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2010.
With the utmost simplicity, if the Wyden-Coats Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2011 gains momentum, the bill will eliminate the tax exempt interest on all new municipal bonds issued after 2011.
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"I've made it very clear that there are real potential benefits of membership of the euro, particularly for manufacturing industry in terms of things like currency stability, transparency of costs and simplification of the trading regime, " she said.
The increase in growth made possible by these initiatives also would set the stage for additional growth augmenting policies including reform and simplification of the personal income tax code and restoration of gold as a standard of value for the dollar.
That has supporters, including the NRF, the SSTGB and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), mulling over how to revamp two bills, both called the "Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act, " which have been pending in the House and the Senate since 2007.
Republicans, on the other hand, have desecrated the limited-government legacies of Reagan, Goldwater, and our founders by embarking on spending orgies with borrowed money -- a form of deferred taxation and financial repression -- while hiding beyond false pledges of tax purity that have made tax reduction and simplification much more difficult to achieve.
Rudy Giuliani comes closest with his agenda of tax cut extensions and tax simplification.
The president should install a hardcore supply-sider with a vision for the future who can explain to the American people why tax cuts and tax simplification are needed.
To rebut that image and make an affirmative case for the undecided voters, Bush is likely to lay out ambitious plans for health care reform, social security reform and tax simplification.
The updates are designed to address shortcomings and inconsistent application of the current rules through increased simplification and cutting administration costs.
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Put simply, tax cuts are too important to waste, and it would be a shame to discredit the undeniable good that comes from simplification and across-the-board reduction on a tax plan that subsidizes some at the expense of others, and which addresses yesterday's rather than tomorrow's economy.
His moves on tax simplification and property rights were heartening steps.
The Sandler review recognises the role that tax plays in contributing to complexity and calls for simplification of the more than 20 tax regimes that govern pensions.
We have a range of approaches and proposals for simplification.
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Together, the moves served as reminders that Bush's economic team will have a new look as he pursues several major policy initiatives, including tax simplification and Social Security overhaul.
With genuine deregulation, privatization, tax simplification and deep tax cuts, Israel's entrepreneurship in the high-tech arena could spread to the rest of the economy, quickly lowering the 8% unemployment rate.
And with a lot of statistical hand-waving and over-simplification.
After all, to the extent that your program of comprehensive tax simplification and reductions translates into -- as you have put it -- a "refund" for every American who pays taxes, the effect will assuredly be to contribute to long-term economic growth.
"This transaction is in line with BP's strategy to focus on a smaller number of higher-value assets with long-term growth potential and to continue the simplification of our portfolio with a further reduction of operated infrastructure and wells, " said BP chief executive Bob Dudley.
One is that both countries are so big and so complex that at times broad-brush simplification of their histories and policies veers into distortion.
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It had also formed the Office of Tax Simplification, and was reforming the state pension.
He will insist on tax simplification, and ideally also on tax cuts.
Let us move together with an historic reform of tax simplification for fairness and growth.
The 1986 law drastically reduced the number of deductions and tax brackets, seeing simplification itself a goal worth achieving.
So I think for both consumers and community banks, some simplification could be really very helpful for this new consumer agency.
The objective is to encourage access to online legal content through the simplification of payment and management of rights and the granting of transnational licenses.
The other problem is that over the past two or three decades we have corrupted our film language in many ways by indulging in over-emphasis, sentimentality, repetition, over-simplification, triteness and being utterly conformist.
These planned measures are expected to include elimination of the company's matrix organizational structure, site consolidation, transfer of activities to global delivery centers, consolidation of certain central functions, cost synergies from the integration of Motorola's wireless assets, efficiencies in service operations, and company-wide process simplification.
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