Jeffrey Veen told the crowd today that he believes not only in making more fonts available through Typekit, but more fonts on the web altogether. 500 free, high-quality fonts with simplified code requirements is certainly a great place to start.

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Lower tax rates will reduce people's incentive to avoid tax and a simplified tax code should also provide fewer opportunities for avoidance in the first place.

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In 1986, President Reagan signed a comprehensive tax reform plan that closed loopholes, lowered rates, simplified the code, and sustained what was then the longest economic expansion in peacetime since World War II.

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If Congress truly simplified the tax code, there would be little reason for special interests to donate money to candidates.

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On the other hand, a discussion with a group of tenth-graders would probably quickly generate a list of important forces such as immigration reform, changes in science and math education, and a simplified US tax code might have a bearing on how the world shapes up in the next few decades.

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Yet both parties profess to believe that the tax code should be simplified and the base broadened, chiefly by eliminating most loopholes.

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The tax code should be simplified and tax rates reduced.

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With Mr Palocci at his elbow, Lula might have scaled back the ruinously expensive pension system, brought sanity to labour-market regulation and simplified a fiendishly complex tax code.

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