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His first test will be his promise to unveil, by June, a plan for the taxation of share-option gains, a matter that has vexed his predecessors.
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Instead, the Ryan plan proposed wrenching changes in the areas of taxation, discretionary spending, and entitlements for the sake of raising the growth rate by only 0.22 percentage points.
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Intriguingly, Mr Bush spent more time on the income-tax bits of his proposal he would make cuts scheduled for 2004 and 2006 permanent this year than on the plan to end taxation of dividends.
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He uttered some empty platitudes, offered no plan, (amazingly) called for more government spending, and continued his advocacy of class-warfare taxation.
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