The broader west coast is a stronghold for the Democrats, and significantly more politically progressive and racially diverse than large swathes of central US.

广阔的西海岸是**党的大本营，与美国中部大部分地区相比，这里明显**更开明、种族更多元。

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If Gore does run and win, or if any Democrat wins in 2008, I hope politically progressive CEOs like Steve Jobs step up and stop the protectionist drift of their party.

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Unfortunately, we are stuck with the most harmful system of all: a complex, progressive income tax, with lots of politically motivated loopholes, deductions, and credits, that encourages a raft of unproductive activities, and supports an entire class of unneeded service providers to calculate.

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